China Wants ‘Made in China’ Nuclear Reactors

Wall Street Journal ^ | Dec 15, 2014 | BRIAN SPEGELE

[BikerJoe]

...and don't forget the safety systems. A 2 gigawatt reactor, when scrammed, will still generate 50 megawatts. That's OFF for a reactor, so there's still a lot of cooling required.

Also, don't forget the design of the fuel assemblies. Those rods aren't just solid fuel. They alternate moderator and each rod goes in a particular place in the assembly, which goes in a particular place in the core.

[GingisK]

They still don’t know how to make decent concrete.

[The Working Man]

The somewhat ‘funny’ thing is this... All anyone who ever thought of doing business with China, (either one, Peoples Republic or just Republic), had to do is walk through the open air markets of Taipei or Beijing and look at the goods for sale.

It’s all right there in plain view that, Intellectual Property, either copyrights or patents are just a vague guideline and that is is not only permissible to steal them but very profitable too. But noooo... these guys, (foreign devil businessmen), are too smart, they ‘know’ that when dealing with the upper levels of Chinese society that theft of IP is ‘just not done’.

And they just become another sheared sheep, slaughtered cow, etc. and that the next ‘too smart’ businessman will ignore their warnings to him and the cycle will continue.

[central_va]

We stole gunpowder from them so we owe them.

[kidd]

Contrary to what the article is trying to portray,
the Chinese are not close to becoming a top supplier of nuclear plants.

They screwed up the steam generators at Yangjiang Unit 2 (a take off of an Areva design) pretty bad because they lack an understanding of the importance foreign object control. They lack any kind of QA program, which means that they are a long way from selling nuke plants outside of China.