China will build a nuclear power plant on its northeast coast in Shandong province, adding to a boom in the country's nuclear industry, a news report said Thursday.

The facility is to be built in Rushan, a city near the eastern tip of the Shandong peninsula in the Yellow Sea, some time before 2015, the government's Xinhua News Agency said. It didn't give a price.

China plans to build dozens of nuclear power plants in coming years to ease mounting power shortages amid booming economic growth. Beijing looks on nuclear power as a clean alternative to imported oil and China's own abundant but dirty coal reserves.

The Rushan plant will use six 1,000-megawatt reactors, Xinhua said.

The facility is being built by China Nuclear Engineering and Construction Corp., which will own 51 percent of it, along with three other Chinese investors, Xinhua said.

China has six nuclear power plants with 11 generating units, all located along its economically thriving east and southeast coasts.

Rushan is the third planned new facility announced this year. The others are both in the central province of Hunan, in the cities of Yueyang and Taohuajiang.