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Westinghouse to build 4 nuke power plants in China

Westinghouse Electric Co. has been selected to build four new nuclear power plants in China with the US giant agreeing to transfer core technologies.

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BEIJING: Westinghouse Electric Co. has been selected to build four new nuclear power plants in China with the US giant agreeing to transfer core technologies for
third-generation AP1000 reactors.
    
China's State Nuclear Power Technology Corp. Ltd. (SNPTC) and China National Technical Import and Export Corp. signed deals with Westinghouse yesterday for the four nuclear power plants.
    
It was not disclosed how much money was involved.
    
The first reactor adopting the third-generation AP1000 technologies would be built in Sanmen of east China's Zhejiang Province and put into commercial operation at the end of 2013.
    
"It will also be the first nuclear station using the AP1000 technologies in the world," board chairman of the SNPTC, Wang Binghua said, adding that new reactors would also be built in Haiyang of east China's Shandong Province.
    
China now has 11 nuclear reactors in operation. China's installed capacity of nuclear power stands at eight million kilowatts, accounting for merely one per cent of the total
installed capacity of electric power, lagging far behind the world's average level.
    
These operating reactors were built based on second-generation technologies. Three were built with Chinese technology, others used Russian, French and Canadian
technologies.
    
China is expected to have an installed nuclear power capacity of 40 million kilowatts by 2020, accounting for four per cent of the nation's total installed capacity in a bid to
meet growing power demands and cutting emissions.

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