APR 1400 and Korea Hydro: Is Korea Hydro Building a Nuke Plant In USA

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Hello Mr. Mulligan;

 

Regarding the ongoing APR-1400 certification review, the NRC’s regulations require us to review any application (foreign or domestic) for which Congress has provided the resources to work on.  The APR-1400 review has such appropriated resources.

 

The APR-1400 review also retains the critical technical staff skills necessary to review small modular reactors or advanced reactor designs until those future design applications are submitted to the NRC for review.  It is very difficult to wait for an application and then hire the necessary skill sets. The APR-1400 applicants, Korea Electric Power Corporation and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co., are paying for all the review hours that are being performed.

 

Please let me know if you have any other questions.  Thank you.

 

Scott Burnell

Public Affairs Officer

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Design Certification Application Review - Advanced Power Reactor 1400 (APR 1400)

Again dilution of USA and NRC resources; Basically the USA is subsidizing building and certifying nuclear plants in Korea and United Arab Emirates. We don't get enough benefits from doing this?

Design Certification Application Review - Advanced Power Reactor 1400 (APR 1400)

It is a Korean Design?

Basically we are subsidizing building third world nuclear plants in third world countries.

***You get it, it is against the law for a foreigner to own a USA nuclear plant...even a partial owner.  

Wiki: The APR-1400 (for Advanced Power Reactor 1400 [MWe]) is an advanced pressurized water nuclear reactor designed by the Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO). Originally known as the Korean Next Generation Reactor (KNGR),^[1] this Generation III reactor was developed from the earlier OPR-1000 design and also incorporates features from the US Combustion Engineering (C-E) System 80+ design.^[2] Currently there is one unit in operation (Shin Kori unit 3) and seven units under construction, four in the United Arab Emirates at Barakah^[3] and three in South Korea: one at Shin Kori and two at Shin Hanul. Two more units are planned with construction yet to commence at Shin Kori. 

APR-1400 design began in 1992 and was awarded certification by the Korean Institute of Nuclear Safety in May 2002.^[4] The design certification application was submitted to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in December 2014 and in March 2015, it was accepted for technical review to determine if the reactor design meets basic US safety requirements.^[5]