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Biography

Ouyang Yu, male, Han nationality, is a native of Leshan, Sichuan Province. He graduated from the Electric Motor Department of Wuhan University in 1948 and obtained a technology and science doctorate degree from Moscow Dynamics Institute in 1957.

An expert on nuclear reactor and nuclear-electric engineering, Ouyang served as deputy director of the science and technology committee of the China Nuclear Industry Corporation. He presided over the research and design of the first production reactor in China; the reactor was ultimately built and put into production. Following this research, he became the chief engineer of Qinshan Nuclear Power Generation Station -- the first of its kind independently designed and constructed within the country.

At the nuclear station, he examined and completed key science and technology problems in the design of the nuclear power station. He later directed a feasibility study report on the preliminary design and construction design of the station.

Ouyang also served as the director of the final safety analysis report compiling committee and guided the completion of an overall report addressing the safety of the station in detail. In 1991, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.