South Korea signs contracts on two reactors with Westinghouse.

[NNadir]

Westinghouse signed contracts for participating in Korea's first two 1,400-MW PWRs, the company announced August 28. Westinghouse Electric Co. said the contracts are valued at more than $300 million. The contracts cover components, instrumentation and control equipment, and technical and engineering services for Shin-Kori-3 and -4, now under construction. The contracts are with Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co. Ltd., Korea's prime nuclear equipment fabricator, and the Korea Power Engineering Co., the project's architect and engineering firm...

...All six of these reactors currently under construction are based on original Combustion Engineering designs. Westinghouse acquired ABB-CE in 2000. Korean industry has been planning on building a second group of 1,400-MW PWRs at Shin-Wolsong. No contracts with Westinghouse were announced for these reactors.

http://www.platts.com/Nuclear/News/7675965.xml?sub=Nuclear&p=Nuclear/News&?undefined&undefined

[nealhughes]

1. These are PWRs. Pressurized Water Reactors if they are from W/CE.

The fuel is only slightly enriched and the water is "light water," not heavy, a pure power reactor.
Korea is like Japan: very little to no coal or gas/oil and has electricity needs. At least it is from a reputable company in nuclear power. Westinghouse produced most of the reactors onboard the US's nuclear submarines.

[bananas]

2. That's good news, since South Korea will be underwater. nt

[NNadir]

3. Actually, if we follow your program, the seas will only rise about 20m.

I do realize you're poorly informed about the world, but about 70% of South Korea is mountains and hills.

http://www.asianinfo.org/asianinfo/korea/geo/landforms.htm

You pro-coal boys can certainly make Bangladesh into the "Gulf of Bangladesh" but I don't think you're going to get Korea.

In any case, by building 8 reactors, South Korea, unlike you, is fighting global climate change.