South Korea’s state-owned nuclear power company’s plan to supply a nuclear power plant to the Czech Republic has run into difficulties, KBS World reported on April 5.
Warns that South Korea’s plan to supply nuclear power plants faces challenges “United States Government Bureaucracy”.
According to a document filed by Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP) in a US federal court in Washington, the company submitted information about its application for a nuclear reactor project in the Czech Republic to the US Department of Energy. on December 23 of last year.
The filing is consistent with a US federal regulation that requires authorization or reporting to the Department of Energy when certain export-controlled nuclear power technologies are transferred to a foreign country.
However, on January 19, the agency sent a response to KHNP and refused to accept the report, stating that it should be submitted by a “US organization”, implying that KHNP should cooperate with US nuclear power company Westinghouse. Electric Company.
Westinghouse, which has filed a lawsuit against KHNP, says the South Korean company must get its approval, as well as permission from the US Department of Energy, to export reactors designed with Westinghouse’s key technologies.
KHNP says Westinghouse helped it early on in the development of nuclear reactors, but the model it is now trying to export was developed using its own technology.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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