3 Aug (NucNet): China Nuclear Power Engineering Company (CNPEC) and France-based engineering services company Onet Technologies have signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate on nuclear decommissioning and waste management in Europe and China.
Onet Technologies said in a statement that the MOU concerns decommissioning of nuclear installations, decontamination, nuclear waste treatment and management, engineering services for nuclear plants in construction and operation, and nuclear site services for nuclear plants in operation.
Guogang Shu, general manager of CNPEC, said the company aims to use Onet Technologies’s expertise for the plants they will build in China.
According to Onet Technologies, CNEPC also wants to integrate, during the design of their new plants, the decommissioning solutions.
CNEPC is a subsidiary of the China Guangdong Nuclear Power Holding Corporation, which owns the two-unit Daya Bay nuclear power station (also known as Guangdong) and the Ling Ao nuclear station, which has four units.
According to the company’s website, it also has 12 reactor units under construction at Hongyanhe, Yangjiang and Ningde.
Another three nuclear power projects – Taishan, Fangchenggang and Xianning – are at various stages of preparatory work.
