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It is therefore concluded that on the grounds of overall cost, available operating experience, the considerable worldwide programme on safety evaluation and the fact that a choice is available between several potential reactor vendors, the most suitable type of reactor for the joint nuclear power station, is the PWR.
Evaluation of Equipment Vendors
The ultimate choice of equipment vendors will take the following points into consideration :-
ease
Their designs should be up-to-date, safe and reliable, offering of operation and maintenance and mature operational experience. A standardised design of nuclear steam supply system (NSSS) would be preferred. The turbine generator must be technically compatible with the NSSS.
There must be
be no problems associated with obtaining equipment from the countries of manufacture. Any stipulations made by the vendor's Government on nuclear equipment and nuclear fuel must be acceptable to the Government of the People's Republic of China.
from the
The price and financing terms must be competitive, taking account of
assistance any
with financing available vendor's government.
The vendors must be prepared to accept a scope of responsibility and a contracting method appropriate to the Joint Venture.
For the feasibility study a preliminary technical assessment has been made of reactor and turbine generator vendors and those considered capable, in principle, of satisfying the requirements of the Joint these Venture have been identified. Meetings have been held with vendors and the major aspects of the specification and performance of their plant have been listed for comparison. When the Joint Venture Company is formed a more detailed technical comparison can be made and this, together with an
will ultimately enable decisions on the vendors to be taken. The conclusions reached at this stage are as follows :-
economic comparison,
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Reactor Vendors
There are six major companies who are currently designing and manufacturing nuclear steam supply systems based on the Pressurised Water Reactor. These companies are Babcock & Wilcox, Combustion Engineering, Framatome, Kraftwerk Union, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Westinghouse. Framatome and Mitsubishi are manufacturing reactor systems under licence from Westinghouse. After comparing the available information on the six vendors it has been concluded that only three companies, Framatome, Kraftwerk Union and Westinghouse should be considered in detail for the Joint Venture.
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