Yangjiang nuclear power plant unit 6 gets ready for operation

Yangjiang nuclear power plant's unit 6 in Guangdong province is ready for commercial operation with all the debugging work done as of Wednesday, its operator China General Nuclear Power Corp said on Wednesday in a statement.

After all six units of Yangjiang nuclear power plant are put into operation, the annual energy output of the plant should reach 48 billion kilowatt hours, equivalent to 15.6 million metric tons of coal being burned.

This will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 38.28 million tons, sulfur dioxide by 370,000 tons and nitric oxide by 240,000 tons, said CGN, one of China's biggest nuclear power operators.