Ukrinform provides information on this with reference to CGTN.

The Hualong-1 project (translated from Chinese as Dragon-1 – ed.) includes two reactors Unit 5 and Unit 6 at the Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant located in Fuzhou city, southeastern China’s Fujian Province.

As CNNC reported, the current test was the final step to mark the completion of the project and bears witness to the high level of development in China’s nuclear power technologies, which are now among the best in the world.

Construction of unit 5 of Fucin NPP started in May and construction of unit 6 started in December 2015. Power unit No. 5 was put into industrial operation in January 2021, and unit No. 6 in March 2022.

Now these two units can produce 20 billion kWh of electricity per year (for comparison, the Zaporizhzhya NPP with six nuclear power units of the Soviet design VVER-1000 before the start of the Russian invasion produced about 40 billion kWh of electricity per year – ed.) .

“The project has the best performance in terms of construction time, cost-effectiveness, operational safety and quality among all demonstration projects of third-generation nuclear power units in the world,” said NGS director Fuqing Sun Lin.

According to him, foreign countries showed great interest in Hualong-1, and their assessment points to significant competitive advantages of the Chinese rector.

Hualong-1, III, characterized by high fuel efficiency, improved thermal efficiency and much more advanced safety systems. generation reactors. The first generation III reactor was commissioned in 1996 in Japan.

As reported by Ukrinform, an inspection was conducted by the International Atomic Energy Agency for the presence of undeclared nuclear material at the Khmelnytskyi NPP.