Comment by chickenbig
12 days ago
> Westinghouse sold the Chinese 4x AP1000
https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profil...
> Westinghouse has agreed to transfer technology to SNPTC over the first four AP1000 units so that SNPTC can build the following ones on its own.
So it seems a bit unfair to say the Chinese somehow reversed engineered the AP1000 design.
This also happened when Combustion Engineering sold the System 80+ design (a derivative of that deployed at Palo Verde) to South Korea. Apparently Combustion Engineering were in financial trouble and did what was necessary to get the deal, although Westinghouse (who eventually came to own the Combustion Engineering intellectual property) are currently disputing this deal.
Better the Chinese actually use the tech than it sets in regulatory deadlock in the US.
Sad to see the US lose freedoms just as rapidly as a Chinese citizens. One one case, onerous regulation and on the other a decrease of personal freedom but the overall result is surprisingly similar.