{"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":"zhaoyuan-1","name":"Zhaoyuan-1","plant":"Zhaoyuan","unit":1,"country":"CN","region":"asia","reactor_type":"PWR","design":"Hualong One","capacity_mw_net":1090,"is_smr":false,"vendor":"CGN","owner_operator":"CGN","vendor_id":"org:cgn","owner_operator_ids":["org:cgn"],"design_id":"design:hualong-one","site_id":"site:zhaoyuan","status":"under_construction","construction_start":"2025-11-18","original_cod_target":null,"current_cod_estimate":2030,"milestones":[{"date":"2026-06-16","event":"Listed as under construction in the WNA world table, grid connection estimated 2030","source":"https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/plans-for-new-reactors-worldwide"},{"date":"2025-11-18","event":"First safety-related concrete poured for the reactor building of Zhaoyuan unit 1, CGN's first nuclear project in Shandong and its tenth plant site (six HPR1000 units planned; phase 1 approved August 2024)","source":"https://en.cnnc.com.cn/2025-11/19/c_1144251.htm"}],"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/2025-11/19/c_1144251.htm","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhaoyuan_Nuclear_Power_Plant"],"last_verified":"2026-09-28","verified":true,"confidence":"high","notes":"First concrete 2025-11-18 per WNN (carried by CNNC) and Wikipedia. Zhaoyuan 2 poured first concrete Sep 5-6 2026 (Global Times + CGN post + Wikipedia) — confirms unit-2 as a future tracker addition; Phase I now fully under construction. First Hualong One with cooling towers (203-m natural-draft). COD 2030 per WNA table.","tags":["cn","hualong"],"updated_at":"2026-09-28","slippage_years":null}}