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China starts a new cycle " energizing" while getting involved in the construction of 3eme generation nuclear plants. For it, she/it puts in competition the world leaders of the sector, the French Areva and the group nippo-American Westinghouse, of which it wants to get ardently and to master the technologies.

In 2006, after years of biting lobbysme - interior and foreign -, Peking chose like standard for its future nuclear plants of third generation, the standard of the AP1000 type. In return for a complete transfer of technology (condition that the Areva competition had declined to accept), Westinghouse (and Toshiba, new owner of the group) returned to a nuclear market of which he was excluded since close to thirty years. By contract of July 2007 therefore, Peking bestowed him four reactors to construct between Sanmen (Zhejiang) and Haiyang (Shandong). But it took as care to grant a number equivalent to Areva of it, of its own EPR path (European Pressurized Reactor), to build in Taishan (Guangdong). Peking also pursued with Areva the survey of feasibility for the future factory of reprocessing of the fuels. The idea being to choose then between the two, on the basis of a comparison of the performances. However, here it is that the Caijing newspaper announces the green light " next" to another set of reactors, on the sites of Daban (Hubei), Taohuajiang (Hunan) and Pengze (Jiangxi), while evoking the preference of Wang Binghua, president of the corporation nuclear national SNPTC for the American technology " more sure, more economic, more adapted to the conditions of the inside of the country". does It mean him that the choice would have been made without waiting? At least, it evokes a wind in stern, that Westinghouse explains by a less elevated well-known cost (bound to a least power, 1000 Mega Watt against 1600 to the EPR), a fast construction (three years) and a system of security says "passive safety", without human intervention. While waiting, a technological duel delivers itself between the teams of the two paths, to start against the clock with a race on the yards.

Stake:  to work in China to a level that it doesn't yet master.

Because it intends to build 31 power stations of second also generation from 2020. But on these yards, the foreign contribution will be thin.