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The first nuclear power plant in China

(ezhejiang.gov.cn) Updated : 2016-08-15

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Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant, located in Haiyan county, Jiaxing city, Zhejiang province, is China’s first domestically-researched, designed and constructed nuclear powerplant. Ground was broken at the plant in June 1983 and by December 1991, began generating electricity.