Workers have completed the pouring of first safety related concrete for the nuclear island of Unit 3 at the Haiyang nuclear power station in Shandong province, north of Shanghai in eastern China.
The concrete pouring marks the official start of construction of the first of two CAP1000 pressurised water reactors planned as Phase II of the site.
Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute, the engineering firm in responsible for the work, said construction of the base plate for the nuclear island began at 09:17 on 7 July and was completed at 14:16pm on 9 July. “It took 53 hours and a total of 5,488 cubic metres of concrete was poured, the company said.
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