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China has approved five more nuclear power projects.

According to CCTV news, on August 19, Premier Li Qiang presided over an executive meeting of the State Council and decided to approve five nuclear power projects including the first phase of the Xuwei project in Jiangsu.

The meeting emphasized that safety is the lifeline of nuclear power development. We must continuously improve the level of nuclear power safety technology and risk prevention capabilities, strengthen safety supervision throughout the entire chain and in all areas, ensure that nuclear power is absolutely safe, and promote the long-term and healthy development of the industry.

According to official news from CNNC on the 19th, the approved CNNC Jiangsu Xuwei Nuclear Energy Heating Power Plant project is the world's first nuclear power plant that couples a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor with a pressurized water reactor and innovatively adopts a "nuclear reactor-steam turbine generator set-heating system" collaborative operation mode. It is mainly used for industrial heating and also takes into account electricity supply. After completion, it will provideLianyungangThe trillion-level petrochemical industry base supplies high-quality, low-carbon industrial steam on a large scale, which plays a leading and exemplary role in accelerating the green and low-carbon transformation of industries such as energy and chemical industry.

There are signs that China's nuclear power construction is accelerating. Recently, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council issued the "Opinions on Accelerating the Comprehensive Green Transformation of Economic and Social Development", proposing: "Accelerate the construction of clean energy bases such as wind power and photovoltaic power in the northwest, hydropower in the southwest, offshore wind power, and coastal nuclear power... By 2030, the proportion of non-fossil energy consumption will increase to about 25%."

Yicai Global noted that this is the first time that China has used the word "accelerate" in an official document to describe the pace of nuclear power project construction since the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan in 2011. Several nuclear power industry insiders recently told Yicai Global that the next few years will be the "golden period" for the development of nuclear power in China, and its clean and stable energy characteristics will play an irreplaceable role in promoting the comprehensive green transformation of the economy and society.

Data shows that China has maintained a steady pace of nuclear power construction in recent years, with 10 nuclear power units approved each year in 2022 and 2023. The total investment in each million-kilowatt nuclear power unit exceeds 20 billion yuan, but its power generation capacity is equally amazing, meeting the production and living electricity needs of a million people each year, while achieving significant energy-saving and emission reduction effects.

In terms of energy conservation and emission reduction, million-kilowatt nuclear power units can reduce the consumption of 3 million tons of standard coal each year compared with thermal power plants of the same size, save a lot of fuel transportation costs, and reduce emissions of 6 million tons of carbon dioxide, 26,000 tons of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, with significant environmental benefits.

(This article comes from China Business Network)