Cangnan San'ao nuclear power plant

Cangnan San'ao nuclear power plant in context

By gross operating capacity Cangnan San'ao nuclear power plant is the 17th largest of 18 operating nuclear sites in China, holding 2% of the country's operating capacity, and ranks 133rd of 172 worldwide.

Its operating unit started up in 2026; the unit is 0.0 years old, younger than the median of 10.0 in China.

The one unit with both construction and grid dates on record took 5.2 years from construction start to grid connection; the median across all reactors connected in the 2020s is 7.7 years.

The nearest other tracked nuclear sites are Ningde nuclear power plant (29 km), Fuqing nuclear power plant (223 km) and Sanmen nuclear power plant (238 km).

The current net rating of Unit 1-1 differs from its design net capacity by -7.5% (1,208 MW at design, 1,117 MW now).

Build time by unit

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How these are worked out: ranks use gross operating capacity; ages count from the start-up year on record, as on the age page; build times run from construction start to grid connection, as on the build-times page; ratings are the tracker's net and design net capacity, as on the uprates page. Distances are straight-line between exact positions, so a site with only an approximate position gets none. A unit missing a date or a rating is left out of the figure that needs it.