U.S. Westinghouse Electric Company has a fully completed documentation package for construction of the AP1000 reactor, which will facilitate acceleration of the development of new nuclear projects in Ukraine in cooperation with NNEGC “Energoatom”. Joel Eacker, Senior Vice President of APX Projects EMEA at Westinghouse noted that.
“We have a very good starting point – a 100% completed reactor design as a packaged project. This is a complete set of documents according to which a reactor can be built. It has been fully approved in four countries and includes more than 90,000 diagrams and drawings, as well as other information necessary for reactor construction,” Joel Eacker said.
According to him, by 2028, Westinghouse will already have documents adapted for the European market.
Unit 5 at the Khmelnytskyi NPP will be one of the first projects within the framework of cooperation with NNEGC “Energoatom”; Westinghouse has already helped them prepare a feasibility study for that.
“Now we will be communicating with Energoatom to understand what still needs to be refined in the supply chain within the company and within Ukraine, and how this can best be integrated into Westinghouse’s global supply chain,” Joel Eacker added.
Westinghouse comments that the memorandum on the construction of nine AP1000 reactors in Ukraine is an evidence of strategic partnership with NNEGC “Energoatom” and long-term cooperation for the development of Ukraine’s nuclear sector.
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