The State Council, China’s cabinet, has given preliminary approval for the construction of four multi-billion-dollar nuclear power generators. The four generators – two to be built in Sanmen city in East China’s Zhejiang Province and two in Lingdong city in South China’s Guangdong Province – will have a generating capacity of 1 million kilowatts each, reported China Daily. The government last gave approval for building a new nuclear power generator in 1997. The two generators in Lingdong will be located close to four existing 1 million-kilowatt generators in the Ling’ao and Dayawan nuclear power plants, while the Sanmen generators will be built close to the Qinshan nuclear power plant, where four nuclear power generators are already in operation and one is under construction, the report said. The government hopes construction will start before 2005 and that the generators start operating by the end of 2010, the report said, citing Kang Rixin, deputy general manager of China National Nuclear Corp., China’s largest builder of nuclear plants. The new approvals are part of the government’s plan to expand the country’s nuclear power generating capacity to four times its current level by 2020, reaching between 32 million and 40 million kilowatts, the report said. This would help increase the proportion of nuclear power to 5% of all electricity generated compared with 1.3% currently.
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