Two American companies
announced contracts to provide parts for new nuclear plants in China on Thursday.
Invensys Operations
Management will install safety and distributed controls at units 3 and 4 of the
Fujian Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant in the southeast of the country. It is the
third contract the company has reached with China Nuclear Power and Engineering
Co. since 2008. Previous work includes control systems and fully digitized
control rooms.
Invensys Operations
Management, based in Plano, Texas, is a subsidiary of London-based Invensys.
The company’s technology has been installed in new reactors in the Chinese provinces
of Fujian, Zhejiang and Hainan, according to a company release.
Meanwhile, Emerson Process
Management announced a multi-million-dollar contract with China’s State Nuclear
Power Engineering Corp. to install Fisher control vales at the Sanmen 2 and
Haiyang 2 reactors. The 6-inch bypass valves and the 20-inch main feeder valves
will be installed in Westinghouse AP1000 pressurized water reactors, according
to a company release.
Emerson Process Management
is a subsidiary of St. Louis, Mo.,-based Emerson.