system 80Want to know how South Korea won the $20 billion UAE nuclear energy contract?

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The Atomic Show #146 - South Korea Nuclear Technology Development

The United Arab Emirates has recently selected a consortium that includes Korea Electric Power Corp., Westinghouse Electric, Hyundai Engineering and Construction, Samsung C&T Corp and Doosan Heavy Industries to supply it with 5.6 gigawatts of electrical power capacity. The order includes four APR-1400 nuclear reactor power plants and all associated secondary equipment.

Rod Adams, who blogs at Atomic Insights, made contact with Rick Turk, the engineering project manager for the effort to obtain a US Nuclear Regulatory Commission design certification for the Combustion Engineering System 80+ which is an ancestor of the current APR-1400.

On December 29, 2009, Rick Turk, Dan Yurman, Idaho Samizdat, and Adams chatted about the evolution of the APR-1400 and the way that South Korea has worked to develop its capacity as a nuclear power plant supplier capable of winning a competitively bid $20-40 billion project.

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