{"docs":"https://www.nuclearnewsnetwork.com/tracker","terms":"History surfaces — append-only milestone logs, event/change feeds, and full JSON snapshots — are provided under the NNN Data License Terms (https://www.nuclearnewsnetwork.com/data-license): journalism, research, citation and AI answering are expressly permitted royalty-free with attribution; systematic bulk extraction, dataset redistribution, and embedding in commercial products or training corpora require a commercial license.","terms_url":"https://www.nuclearnewsnetwork.com/data-license","attribution":{"text":"Nuclear News Network, \"NNN Reactor Project Tracker\", https://www.nuclearnewsnetwork.com/tracker","url":"https://www.nuclearnewsnetwork.com/tracker"},"unit":{"slug":"xuwei-1","name":"Xuwei-1","plant":"Xuwei","unit":1,"country":"CN","region":"asia","reactor_type":"PWR","design":"Hualong One","capacity_mw_net":1090,"is_smr":false,"vendor":"CNNC","owner_operator":"CNNC","vendor_id":"org:cnnc","owner_operator_ids":["org:cnnc"],"design_id":"design:hualong-one","site_id":"site:xuwei","status":"under_construction","construction_start":"2026-01-16","original_cod_target":null,"current_cod_estimate":2031,"milestones":[{"date":"2026-06-16","event":"Listed as under construction in the WNA world table, grid connection estimated 2031","source":"https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/plans-for-new-reactors-worldwide"},{"date":"2026-01-16","event":"Concrete pouring began for the nuclear island of unit 1 at phase I of the Xuwei nuclear heating and power project in Lianyungang, Jiangsu — billed as the world's first large-scale nuclear energy-petrochemical integration project","source":"https://en.cnnc.com.cn/2026-01/20/c_1157963.htm"},{"date":"2026-09-15","event":"Containment steel-liner Module III (133 t) hoisted; liner cylinder passes halfway (31.45 m cumulative) — first unit of China's 15th Five-Year Plan (CINIE + plant relay)","source":"https://en.cinie.net/article/65511.html"}],"sources":["https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/plans-for-new-reactors-worldwide","https://pris.iaea.org/pris/","https://en.cnnc.com.cn/2026-01/20/c_1157963.htm","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuwei_Nuclear_Power_Plant","https://en.cinie.net/article/65511.html"],"last_verified":"2026-09-28","verified":true,"confidence":"medium","notes":"Phase I: two Hualong One units (1,208 MWe gross each) plus a 660 MWe high-temperature gas-cooled reactor; State Council approval August 2024. First concrete 2026-01-16 per CNNC and Wikipedia. Aug-2026 tower crane + Sep-2026 unit-3 installation-bid progress (CINIE/Seetao, single origin each) noted. Wikipedia lists operation start 2030 for unit 1 while the WNA table implies ~2031; tracker keeps 2031 (WNA/PRIS-consistent) pending an operator COD statement.","tags":["cn","hualong"],"updated_at":"2026-09-28","slippage_years":null}}