31 Jul (NucNet): US-based SPX Corporation has won two contracts worth a total of 13 million US dollars (USD) (9 million euro) for work on new Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear power plants to be built in China.
The company said today it had won a contract from Westinghouse Electric Company to design and engineer valves for the Sanmen nuclear plant in Zhejiang province and the Haiyang nuclear plant in Shandong province.
It also signed an agreement with China’s State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation to provide training and technical expertise for the two plants.
Under the Westinghouse contract, SPX will engineer and manufacture specialty valves that will be used in the new plants. The valves will be a critical component of the AP1000 plants.
The valve design fees will be funded in part by the US Department of Energy with approximately USD 2.2 million, which represents 50 percent of the development costs.
Consortium partners Westinghouse Electric and The Shaw Group last week signed multi-billion-dollar definitive contracts to build four AP1000 nuclear reactor units at the two plants.
Construction is expected to begin in 2009, with the first unit at Sanmen starting operations in late 2013.
>>Related reports in the NucNet database (available to subscribers)
China Awards Contracts For New Units To Westinghouse (News No. 267, 18 December 2006)
Formal Signing For Westinghouse China Contract (World Nuclear Review No. 9, 2 March 2007)
Westinghouse Signs Contracts For New China Units (News No. 174, 24 July 2007)
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