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China Pours First Concrete For ‘Hybrid’ Nuclear Power Station Project

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Innovative Xuwei facility will supply both industrial heat and electricity

China Pours First Concrete For ‘Hybrid’ Nuclear Power Station Project
China’s Jiangsu Xuwei nuclear power project will be a “hybrid” facility to supply both industrial heat and electricity. Image courtesy CNNC.

First concrete has been poured for the nuclear island of Unit 1 at Phase I of China’s Xuwei nuclear power project – a “hybrid” facility that will supply both industrial heat and electricity by coupling a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) with two Hualong One pressurised water reactors (PWRs).

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