China's first nuclear reactor in ethnic minority region

The first reactor of the Fangchenggang Nuclear Power Plant in Guangxi Zhuang,a ethnic minority and autonomous region.The main aim of China behind this is to reduce the carbon emission.China currently has operating capacity of 25.5 million kilowatts and aims to raise installed nuclear power to 58 million kilowatts by 2020.

Nuclear Power in China

- Mainland China has 30 nuclear power reactors in operation, 22 under construction, and more about to start construction.- Additional reactors are planned, including some of the world's most advanced, to give more than a three-fold increase in nuclear capacity to at least 58 GWe by 2020-21, then some 150 GWe by 2030, and much more by 2050.- The impetus for increasing nuclear power share in China is increasingly due to air pollution from coal-fired plants.- China’s policy is for closed fuel cycle.- China has become largely self-sufficient in reactor design and construction, as well as other aspects of the fuel cycle, but is making full use of western technology while adapting and improving it.- China’s policy is to ‘go global’ with exporting nuclear technology including heavy components in the supply chain.