Westinghouse's pressurised water reactor design, marketed for new-build projects in the United States and abroad.
South Korea's first agreed US investment project is a $23.3 billion gas-fired power plant in Encinal, Texas. Japan's March batch has the same tilt, putting allied money into US generation next to data-center clusters that are short of power.
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Westinghouse is demanding more than the $175 million licensing fee on each APR1400 built in the US, The Seoul Economic Daily reports. A bigger payment leaves Korea less room on cost and less of the work it needs to make the US reactors commercially reasonable.
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Beomhan Mecatec will bend 3.9-meter steel plate into demonstration AP1000 containment sections that Westinghouse reviews before picking a supplier. Passing is worth only as much as the U.S. reactor pipeline expected to follow.
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Seoul's trade minister returned from Washington with a reported tentative agreement to build at least two APR1400 units inside an eight-reactor, $120 billion program that Westinghouse wants built entirely to its own design.
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A single large US reactor runs about $15bn, so eight would absorb $120bn of the $200bn Korea pledged to secure lower tariffs. The framework being signed fixes two units, and an LNG plant in Encinal, Texas goes first.
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