19h 12min, apr 1, 2016 y - U.S. government charged China General Nuclear Power Corp for Hualong One.
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In April the U.S. government charged China General Nuclear Power Corp, best known as CGN, with conspiracy to obtain illegal nuclear reactor building plans to help design their own reactor, known as the Hualong One.
China wants to shift from being a buyer of foreign technology to being a producer of one; a producer who will sell globally and in this case compete with Westinghouse.
Hualong One is now already under construction in China and expected to become operational by 2020. The Chines have sold it to Pakistan and inked a tentative agreement with Argentina. They offered a floundering EDF project in England called Hinkley Point C a helping hand and money in exchange of a Hualong One reactor built in Britain as well. Back home they want Hualong to become a standard
Jack Allen, then president of Westinghouse for Asia, told the Financial Times in 2010 that the company had no guarantees of its role in China after the four AP1000s were built with their Chinese partners. That was the year they handed over 75,000 documents to SNPTC, which might as well have been titled How to Build an American Nuclear Power Plant.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2016/05/17/westinghouse-electrics-chinese-trojan-horse/#da6d17476ca5
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