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Asia assesses effects of Westinghouse bankruptcy
03 April, 2017
China's State Power Investment Corp (SPIC) said Westinghouse's bankruptcy filing would not have a "substantial impact" on China’s nuclear plans and the two sides would ensure a key AP1000 reactor project would be completed on schedule this year, Reuters reported on 30 March. Two AP1000 reactors are under construction at the Sanmen NPP in Zhejiang province and two more at the Haiyang NPP Shandong province. According to the recently-published 13th Five-Year Plan China aimed to have all four AP1000 units in operation by the end of 2017.

Second thoughts on South Africa’s pebble-bed reactor
02 April, 2017
South Africa’s state utility and nuclear operator Eskom is looking again at plans abandoned in 2010 to develop a Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR), according chief nuclear officer David Nicholls. South Africa began working on the PBMR in 1993, and PBMR Pty, the company set up to lead the project, was on the point of beginning construction when the government cut funding and withdrew its support in 2010. It would have been the first Generation IV unit to enter the construction phase. In an interview with EE Publishers on 28 March, Nicholls. A former CEO of PBMR Pty, said Eskom was investigating whether there is now a market for ultra-safe, small, nuclear reactors for power generation, using high-temperature technology. He said Eskom had started looking at the PBMR again with “a clean sheet” and is carrying out a paper study “with limited research funding going into it”.