Nuclear Reactor Vendors Sign International Code of Conduct

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WASHINGTON—The world’s leading civilian nuclear power plant vendors announced September 15, 2011, a common set of principles that reflects global best practices in connection with the export of nuclear power plants, including to those countries with an emerging interest in developing civilian nuclear energy.

The unprecedented “Principles of Conduct” reflect the participating companies’ commitment to their customers and all those who stand to benefit from nuclear power to assemble and share best practices that reinforce and enhance existing codes, standards and regulations."

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"Richard Meserve, former Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said that the panel took the Fukushima events into account in developing the principles...(he) said that no one today would build plants based on the same designs used 40 years ago in Japan."

http://theenergycollective.com/dan-yurman/65288/nuclear-reactor-vendors-sign-international-code-conduct?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=The+Energy+Collective+%28all+posts%29

No one except the busiest nuclear-bee in the world, that is. As Wikileaked cables show, China is building 95% of its "new" plants based on designs used 50 years ago in the U.S.:

"China is currently in the process of building as many as 50 to 60 new nuclear plants by 2020; the vast majority will be the CPR-1000, a copy of 60's era Westinghouse technology that can be built cheaply and quickly and with the majority of parts sourced from Chinese manufacturers. Because both GE and Westinghouse have requested advocacy for nuclear sales in China, our efforts have been tempered by the requirement of being technology neutral."

http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2008/08/08BEIJING3362.html

The embarrassing disclosure of a "technology neutral" requirement is the font from which this goofy, non-binding Code of Conduct springs.

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2. Two of these facts are incorrect.

1) 95% of the plants being built by china are not CPR-1000s. 17 CPR-1000s, 6 AP-1000s, and 2 EPRs. 8 more AP-1000s are firmly planned.
2) The CPR-1000 is not based off of 50 year old U.S. technology. It is based off of France's Gravelines Units 5 & 6, which entered service in 1985.