China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN)

HPR 1000

Chinese Generation-III nuclear power technology with our proprietary intellectual property has become the preferred reactor technology for China’s nuclear power industry’s “going global” strategy.

HPR1000 is one of the most widely-received Generation-III nuclear power models on the market. It was developed through joint research and development by CGN and China National Nuclear Corporation（CNNC）, and based on experience, breakthrough technologies, and excellent human resources accumulated through 30 years of design, construction, and operation of nuclear power plants.

Small Modular Reactor

ACPR50S: Offshore Small Modular Reactor

The ACPR series of small reactors, including the offshore ACPR50S and onshore ACPR100, are multi-purpose small modular reactors with full intellectual property rights (according to the IAEA, any reactor with a capacity less than 300 MW is Small Modular Reactor).

The ACPR50S, designed for the marine environment as a floating nuclear power plant, will be used to provide stable, economical and green resources, such as electricity, heat and fresh water, for China’s oilfield exploitation in the Bohai Sea and deep-water oil and gas development in the South China Sea. Also, it can be applied to island economies to offer residents energy and fresh water from the ocean.

In late 2015, the National Development and Reform Commission approved the ACPR50S to enter the 13th Five-Year Plan as part of a program to develop experimental reactors. The preliminary design of the ACPR50S is underway. Its demonstration project will begin construction in 2017 and would be completed by 2020.

Meanwhile, the CGN is working on the ACPR100, which can be used in large-scale industrial parks and remote mountainous areas.

Firmsys

China Techenergy Co., Ltd (CTEC), a subsidiary of CGN, is the first company in China and one of the few in the world that provides self-developed Integrated Digital I&C System (DCS) Solutions for nuclear power plants.

The Generic Nuclear-grade DCS FirmSys self-developed by CTEC can be applied in safety-grade I&C System, such as Reactor Protection Systems (RPS), Engineered Safety Feature Actuation Systems (ESFAS), and Post-Accident Monitoring Systems (PAMS), in nuclear power plants using different reactors, including the M310, CPR1000, CAP1000, HPR1000 and HTR.

FirmSys is China’s first product to pass the authentication and examination of the China Nuclear Energy Association and Germany’s TÜV SIL3 and ISTec V&V, and has been used in many NPP units.

As an advanced and decentralized platform, FirmSys is flexible in hardware configuration and simple in software configuration, with three-layered network architecture.

Its development, hardware evaluations, software verification and validation (V&V) and production techniques have met the strictest IEC standards and IEEE requirements. It is highly reliable in that the rejection rate of its systems is 10-7 and the malfunction rate is once in 50 years.

Thanks to CTEC’s self-developed trusted code compiler technology and special software designs (for example, single-way information transmission and point-to-point communication technology), FirmSys can fulfill extremely high network-security requirements to effectively prevent malicious invasions into NPP control systems.