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Longmen Nuclear Power Plant

  • Lungmen Nuclear Power Plant
  • 龍門核能發電廠
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Lungmen Nuclear Power Plant is located in Taiwan
Lungmen Nuclear Power Plant
Location of
  • Lungmen Nuclear Power Plant
  • 龍門核能發電廠
in Taiwan
Country Taiwan
Location Gongliao District
Coordinates 25°02′19″N 121°55′27″E / 25.03861°N 121.92417°E / 25.03861; 121.92417Coordinates: 25°02′19″N 121°55′27″E / 25.03861°N 121.92417°E / 25.03861; 121.92417
Status Halted
Construction began 1999
Commission date
  • N/A (Unit 1)
  • N/A (Unit 2)
Construction cost
  • NT$280 billion
  • (US$9.4 billion)
Owner(s) Taipower
Operator(s) Taipower
Nuclear power station
Reactor type ABWR
Reactor supplier General Electric
Power generation
Units under const. 2 x 1,350 MW
Nameplate capacity 2,700 MW

The Lungmen Nuclear Power Plant (Chinese: 龍門核能發電廠; pinyin: Lóngmén Hénéng Fādiànchǎng; literally: "Dragon Gate Nuclear Power Plant") (formerly Gongliao Nuclear Power Plant and Fourth Nuclear Power Plant, often abbreviated as: Chinese: 核四; pinyin: Hésì; literally: "Nuke 4"), located nearby Fulong Beach, Gongliao District, New Taipei City, is Taiwan's fourth nuclear power plant, consisting of two ABWRs each of 1,300 MWe net. It is owned by Taiwan Power Company (Taipower). It was intended to be the first of these advanced Generation III reactors built outside Japan. In 2014 construction of the plant was deferred.

The preceding four reactors in Japan were completed in four to five years. Taipower, however, did not award the contract as a turnkey plant, but hired General Electric to build the reactors, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to supply the turbines and the generators, and other contractors for the rest, making the project very difficult to manage. In addition, the project was canceled in 2000 by the Government when it was 10-30% complete, only to restart the following year. All these have resulted in significant cost overruns, while in 2011 the Taiwan Atomic Energy Council (AEC) criticized Taipower's management of the project. The construction has been delayed by legal, regulatory and political delays. The proposed 2014 national referendum to decide the fate of the power plant was rejected from the ballot for contradictory and confusing language, despite gathering more than 120,000 signatures.


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