Nuclear Energy
- Thread starter Strangelove
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These buffoons in the US are "solving" their dependence on Russian enriched uranium by getting it from China instead. Which gets it from Russia.
Westinghouse just recently sued KEPCO from South Korea from being a competitor. The thing is, South Korea is one of the few countries in the West with an industry able to actually build nuclear reactor components.
Westinghouse just recently sued KEPCO from South Korea from being a competitor. The thing is, South Korea is one of the few countries in the West with an industry able to actually build nuclear reactor components.
well, do you think Koreans are capable of developing a full domestic supply chain?
If not, then they are forced to deal with whatever US throws at them.
FYI South Korea has a more self-reliant nuclear supply chain to build large reactors than the US.
The major equipment at Vogtle came from South Korea. The steam generators and the reactor pressure vessels. As they did for VC Summer. Or the Sanmen and Haiyang AP1000s in China.
I think the only exception is the fuel cycle. South Korea imports enriched uranium. But it had an enrichment program at one point. Anyway the enriched uranium comes from Russia.
This is all about patents and lawfare not actual capabilities.
The major equipment at Vogtle came from South Korea. The steam generators and the reactor pressure vessels. As they did for VC Summer. Or the Sanmen and Haiyang AP1000s in China.
I think the only exception is the fuel cycle. South Korea imports enriched uranium. But it had an enrichment program at one point. Anyway the enriched uranium comes from Russia.
This is all about patents and lawfare not actual capabilities.
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Why did CN import those from SK? Is there domestic counterpart?
My guess is South Korea produced these components while the transfer of technology from the US to China was in progress. That is why they switched naming the reactor from AP1000 to CAP1000.
I assume all new reactor components are built in China.
I assume all new reactor components are built in China.
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They had too, you can't import because CGN is under sanctions, I saw the documentary on the CAP1400 pressure vessel indigenization a few years back.
CNNC explaining fast neutron reactor and the mass energy potential of CFR-1000.