The Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense confirms that China is expected to build four nuclear-power generating sets with the third-generation nuclear technology imported from the United States, according to a China News Services report.

The US-based Westinghouse and Shaw Group won the bid. China will bring in the AP1000 technical-how of the former to set up a third-generation PWR nuclear power plant, one of the reportedly world-renown third-generation nuclear technologies.

Based on its nuclear energy research and development in the past two-plus decades, China will introduce mature nuclear technologies from overseas to help form its own next-generation technologies and put it into extensive application, said an official with the Commission.

By People's Daily Online