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The world's first commercial onshore small modular reactor (SMR) project "Linglong-1" started the installation of its nuclear island (NI) on November 30 in Changjiang Li Autonomous County, south China's Hainan Province.
This multi-purpose pressurized water reactor (PWR) is cheaper and quicker to build and deploy with a higher safety level. It can be used in power supply, seawater desalination, spot heating and industrial heating.
The annual energy output of "Linglong-1" is expected to hit one billion kilowatt-hours after 58 months of construction.