Fuel loading has begun at the Fuqing-5 nuclear power reactor, the first in China to use the country’s indigenous HPR1000 or Hualong One, technology,
China National Nuclear Power Company, a unit of China National Nuclear Corporation, said on social media that fuel loading had begun on 4 September after the Ministry of Ecology and Environment issued an operating licence for the 1,000-MW Generation III unit in Fujian province, southeastern China.
Fuqing-5, construction of which began in May 2015, is the first of two Hualong One units being built at the site. Construction of its sister unit, Fuqing-6, began in December 2015.
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