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Originally Posted by Jimbuna
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Indeed, they're looking to invest outside of the PRC now, since the new Five Year Plan looks to try to stabilise the economy of the country. Furthermore, the experience and knowledge gained through helping the UK build its next gen power stations will go towards the PRCs power station construction spree.
I was chatting to some chaps from our local NPP and they told me about a design of reactor that was imported from the French in the 1990s, the 900MWe class, which produced (surprisingly enough) 900MWe, but this was not quite enough for the Chinese, who took the design, improved upon it and got it putting out 1000MWe. Their latest development of it, the ACPR-1000 will get rid of the final vestiges of the French design and enable it to be marketed abroad (since the French still own the design rights of the 900MWe).
So it's win-win really, we get our NPPs, they get their NPPs, and they get ideas they can use for their next generation of NPP.