한국전력기술

Last August, from the 23rd to the 30th, CEO An Seung-kyoo and other delegates visited Shaw S&S in Boston, URS Washington in Princeton and Charlotte, Frederick Bechtel, and Sargent & Lundy in Chicago. During the visit, the delegates discussed sustainable mutual cooperation and established a firm Design/ Supply Chain for the nuclear power projects around the world.

Meeting the management of the companies, including Bill Griffith, Vice CEO of the Nuclear Power Division, Shaw S&W, CEO An introduced recent progress in the nuclear power business in Korea, and discussed the sustainable, strategic correlations between current as well as new projects.

In particular, the delegates discussed with Shaw S&W participation in the Engineering and Procurement Project for the supply of Korean equipment to the United States’ Applied Products 1000 Program; with URS Washington and Sargent & Lundy, discussions focused on cooperation in the NRC Design Certificate for APR 1400 and participation in the Engineering and Procurement Project for the supply of Korean equipment to new nuclear power projects in the United States.

Joint participation in new nuclear power projects and the feasibility studies for the countries which are going to introduce nuclear power plants were discussed with Bechtel, and the delegates asked Bechtel about our participation in the nuclear power projects under construction by Bechtel.

In the return-home message CEO An said, “In this visit to the United States, we have agreed with the global leaders in the nuclear power industry on sustainable and mutual cooperation in the global market. The agreements prove that we have grown up as a partner with the global leaders in the industry, from the beginner who had learned nuclear technologies from them to a design partner for new nuclear power plants.”

Based on the NuStart 2010 Policy declared by former President Bush, the nuclear power program in the United States is expected to be prosperous, and in addition to the Chinese and Indian markets, its market is one of the world’s three largest markets. The AP1000 and ABWR reactors of Westinghouse and GE, respectively, have obtained design certificates, and 14 and 12 units, respectively, will be constructed. The US-APWR of Mitsubishi and the US-EPR of AREVA, France, have applied for design certificates, and 2 and 6 units, respectively, will be constructed in the United States.

KOPEC is striving to overcome growth limits through advancing into the global market and embarking on a global EPC enterprise. On the basis of the cooperation networks built in the visit with the American nuclear power leaders, Shaw S&W, URS Washington, Bechtel and Sargent & Lundy, KOPEC will accelerate joint project participation in the new nuclear power plant projects all over the world.