Russia is building the Tianwan NPP in eastern China's port city of Lianyungang, featuring improved VVER-1000 reactors and K-100-6/3000 turbo-generators, under a Russian-Chinese agreement signed in 1992.
Sergei Shmatko said, "We plan to bring the first unit of the Tianwan NPP up to 100% capacity in the second half of December this year, and in the first half of December we plan to bring the power unit to 90% capacity," having obtained permission from the Chinese authorities.
"We are likely to postpone the commercial launch of the second power unit from April 2007 until fall 2007," he told journalists.
Atomstroiexport is currently building five nuclear power plants in China, India and Iran, on contracts worth $4.5 billion, and is also bidding to build a plant in Belene, Bulgaria.
