21 Jan (NucNet): Westinghouse Electric Company has reached agreement with China Baotou Nuclear Fuel (CBNF) to design, manufacture and install fuel fabrication equipment that will enable China to manufacture fuel for the fleet of Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactor units being built there.
The company said today that the total value of the contract is 35 million US dollars (25.8 million euro).
The equipment will be sourced from Westinghouse and its suppliers in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Colorado, Michigan, South Carolina and North Carolina. It will be installed in a CBNF facility in Baotou, northern China.
Joe Belechak, Westinghouse senior vice-president, said that under terms of the agreement, CBNF will be able to manufacture fuel for AP1000s being constructed in China.
Westinghouse and its consortium partners are building four AP1000 units in China, two at Haiyang and two at Sanmen.
Westinghouse said its AP1000 has also been identified as the technology of choice for 14 planned new plants in the US, including the only six for which contracts have been signed. Fuel for those plants will be manufactured at Westinghouse’s state-of-the art fuel fabrication facility in South Carolina.
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Westinghouse Signs Contracts For New China Units (News No. 174, 24 July 2007)
Ground Broken At Site Of China’s Haiyang Nuclear Power Plant (News No. 62, 30 July 2008)
