China, Russia to ink deal for two nuclear reactors in Liaoning

China and Russia are expected to deepen cooperation in the nuclear power plant sector with a general contract for the construction of Unit 3 and Unit 4 of the Xudabao nuclear power plant to be signed soon.

An announcement released on Monday night by the China National Nuclear Corp, the State-owned nuclear power company, said subsidiaries of the corporation and Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation, or Rosatom, will sign a general contract on collaborative construction of two Russian VVER-1200 units at the Xudabao power plant in China's Liaoning province, worth a total of $1.7 billion, in the near future.

Under the deal, construction of unit 3 of the Xudabao nuclear power plant is expected to start in October 2021, followed by unit 4 in August 2022. The single unit construction period lasts 69 months and the construction interval between the two units is 10 months.