Already, Westinghouse has provided details of the AP1000 as part of a technology-sharing deal. China plans to use that to build its own reactors that experts say it could sell abroad.
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I don’t get it. Why do these companies do these kinds of deals?
Probably because they believe someone will eventually.
If the future market is going to be smaller due to China picking up some of the business anyways, better to get some business now, and have some limited control over what information gets shared.