The State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation (SNPTC), also abbreviated as the "State Nuclear Energy", founded in May 2007, has been dubbed as a "newborn baby" as compared with "old-name", large central industrial firms or enterprises. This neonate, however, symbolizes China's hope for the rapid growth of its nuclear energy in the years and even decades ahead.
The mission of the State Nuclear Energy is to bring in the state-of-the-art, third-generation Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) technology, and to pool efforts to tackle pivotal technical issues and to carry out related researches, development and innovation, so as to braze China's new trail of nuclear power development, Chen Zhaobo, an independent director of SNPTC, told reporters.
Since the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) held in 2002, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council have attached greater importance to the nation's cause of developing nuclear energy and made a decision to include nuclear power in a new energy strategy. In November 2006, the State Council made a decision to set up SNPTC and empower it to take charge of the execution of the importation, digestion, absorption and re-innovation of the third-generation nuclear energy technology.
Since its inception, SNTPC has arranged and completed in a fairly short period of time negotiations for the contract on the third-generation nuclear technology importation, and launched related items in an effort to lay a sound basis for the importation, digestion and re-innovation of the technology.
Meanwhile, SNPTC has optimized the disposition of its internal resources and integrated its good external resources so as to accelerate the growth of China's nuclear power energy from a still higher starting-point thanks to the strategic readjustment and layout re-arrangement of its professional business.
The work of keeping up nuclear island negative pressures in the first phase project of the Sanmen Nuclear Power Plant in east China's Zhejiang Province, was commenced on Tuesday, or February 26, one month ahead of schedule,. This endeavor indicates the scheme for the development of China's third-generation nuclear power technology has entered the phase of the on-the-site implementation.
By People's Daily Online
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