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I'm all for safer reactors coupled with expansion of nuclear power, but how is China buying yet another a packaged product from the west a "double first"?
by M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
I'm all for safer reactors coupled with expansion of nuclear power, but how is China buying yet another a packaged product from the west a "double first"?
- _n_b_ 8y agoThe Chinese had lots of involvement in building these, and neither the AP1000 or the EPR is online anywhere but China yet...
- igravious 8y agoBecause they are the first exemplars of these packaged products (note: plural, one each from Framatome|Areva/EDF/Siemens in Europe† and Westinghouse in the US‡) to be built anywhere in the world ahead of other construction projects. Thus: "double first". † https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor) ‡ http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/New-Plants/AP1000-PWR http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/New-Plants/AP1000-PWR ps: it's a little bit worrying I can't find any single commercial page detailing the EPR