CGN Showcases at the 2025 World Nuclear Exhibition (WNE) in France

On November 4, the 2025 World Nuclear Exhibition (WNE) opened at the Villepinte Exhibition Centre in Paris. CGN showcased Hualong One (HPR1000), the Hemu System, nuclear power intelligent equipment, and achievements in international cooperation, comprehensively demonstrating China's high-quality nuclear industry development capabilities at this global event, which covers 35,000 square meters and attracts 1,000 exhibitors and 25,000 professional visitors.

▲On-site at the exhibition

1. Hualong One (HPR1000): Dual Benchmark for Safety and Environmental Protection

▲Model of Hualong One (HPR1000)

Hualong One (HPR1000) is China's third-generation nuclear power technology with independent intellectual property rights and a capacity of 1 million kilowatts, representing a major landmark achievement in China's nuclear power technology innovation and development. It has established core technologies covering areas from overall design of the model, fuel and core design, equipment R&D, and construction to operational convenience. It has not only passed European Utility Requirements certification and the UK Generic Design Assessment but has also obtained more than 800 domestic and international invention patents. Currently, Hualong One (HPR1000) ranks first globally in the number of units in operation or under construction, serving as the main model for China's batch nuclear power construction and the primary choice for China's nuclear power "going global."

Leveraging innovative design concepts and major technological advancements, Hualong One (HPR1000) has built a solid safety defence, featuring independent and redundant safety systems and a combination of active and passive technologies, ensuring enhanced safety. Each Hualong One (HPR1000) unit generates nearly 10 billion kWh annually, meeting the annual electricity demand for production and daily life of one million people, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 8.16 million tonnes—equivalent to afforesting over 70 million trees—thus achieving both economic and ecological benefits.

2. Intelligent-Driven Efficiency Upgrade in Nuclear Power Construction &Operation and Maintenance

▲Smart Nuclear Power

The Smart Nuclear Power system is an industrial operating system with independent intellectual property rights, comprising three major platforms: Smart Control, Smart Operation, and Cloud Link. The Smart Control platform enables fully automated start-up and shutdown of nuclear power units, greatly enhancing control precision and response speed; the Smart Operation platform provides real-time monitoring, early warning, and diagnosis of unit operating status and equipment health, capable of capturing 2 million data fluctuations per second, like equipping the nuclear power plant with an "electrocardiogram monitor"; the Cloud Link system functions like a "neural network" spread throughout the nuclear power station, transmitting "perception" information in real time to the "decision centre" and ensuring commands from the "centre" are quickly and accurately delivered to each "execution unit".

▲Smart Construction Site

3. Intelligent Nuclear Power Equipment Addressing Operation and Maintenance Challenges 

▲Intelligent Equipment Zone

With the increase in operational nuclear power units, the development of intelligent technology, and the high degree of public attention to nuclear safety, the use of intelligent equipment to address daily maintenance, accident handling, and other complex operations in the special environments of nuclear power plants has become a global focus in nuclear power development. Targeting nuclear safety and development needs, CGN has concentrated on areas including unit operation and maintenance, and emergency repairs, conducting original research and forming a portfolio of more than 100 intelligent equipment and robot products.

4. Autonomous and Controllable "Neural Centre" of Nuclear Power Through Digital Technology

The Hemu System is the first nuclear-grade digital control system (DCS) platform independently developed by CGN in China, with technology at an internationally leading level. Currently, the system is applied across 33 operational and under-construction nuclear power units, including Hualong One (HPR1000), VVER, and high-temperature gas-cooled reactors, achieving full coverage of applications from Generation II to Generation IV nuclear power technologies and reactor types. The Hemu System has the capacity to supply equipment for 12–15 nuclear power units simultaneously, delivering high-quality factory shipments with "double zero" (zero defects, zero NCR) performance at projects such as the San'ao Nuclear Power Station, thus providing assurance for the batch construction of major nuclear power projects such as Hualong One (HPR1000).

In addition, CGN's independently developed large-scale digital control SH_N platform was used for the first time in the 30-year overhaul of the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station to successfully "replace the brain" of a unit, providing a reference example for the successful control system upgrade of operational M310 nuclear power units worldwide.

5. International Projects as Models for Global Energy Cooperation

CGN is actively expanding international energy cooperation to create models for global energy collaboration. The Husab Uranium Mine in Namibia, which CGN independently invested in, built, and operates, is China's largest physical investment project in Africa; the China–Kazakhstan component manufacturing plant, a symbolic project linking the Belt and Road Initiative and Kazakhstan's Bright Road strategy, has not only achieved China's first breakthrough in nuclear fuel assembly manufacturing but has also set a benchmark for China–Kazakhstan nuclear energy cooperation quality with strict "China standards."

▲CGN Husab Uranium Mine

In the new energy sector, CGN has established 48 projects in 18 countries worldwide, with a controlling installed capacity of 13.07 million kW, in fields including gas power, wind power, photovoltaics, and biomass, forming a "one horizontal, two vertical" global development layout. The Fujin Wind Power Project in France (total installed capacity 200,000 kW) is CGN's first self-operated project in Europe; the EMPP gas power plant in Malaysia (total installed capacity 2.242 million kW) is the largest and most efficient gas-fired power plant in the country and has been rated the "Global Best Gas Power Plant"; the Northern Laos Interconnected Clean Energy Base Project has created the first large-scale clean energy base for power interconnection between China and neighbouring countries, driving Laos's energy transition and industrial chain upgrade, helping to build it into the "Southeast Asia clean energy battery," while deepening the China–Laos community of shared future and benefiting both nations' peoples.

▲Malaysia EMPP Plant

6. VR Interactive Zone Enabling Cross-Time-and-Space Collaborative Innovation

The VR interactive devices in the exhibition area integrate cutting-edge technologies such as three-dimensional digital humans and VR/MR cloud rendering, enabling engineers in different locations to carry out virtual operations simultaneously. They can simulate scenarios such as equipment inspection and repair, identify ergonomics issues in advance, enhance collaboration efficiency, and shorten verification cycles from several weeks to a few days, making it a popular attraction at the exhibition.

In the exhibition area for specialty products from CGN's targeted rural revitalization assistance regions—such as dried fruits, nuts, honey, camellia oil, and cultural and creative items—foreign visitors expressed repeated praise. The integration of hardcore technology and culture has built a warm bridge for mutual learning between Chinese and foreign civilizations.