US-based Westinghouse Electric Company has signed a contract with the Dutch government to conduct a technical feasibility study assessing the deployment of AP1000 reactors in support of the Netherlands’ nuclear new-build strategy.
Westinghouse said in a press release the study will evaluate deployment of two AP1000 nuclear reactors at the Borssele nuclear power station.
Borssele, in the province of Zeeland in the southwest of the Netherlands, is the country’s only commercial nuclear power station. It has a single 482-MW pressurised water reactor unit that began commercial operation in 1973.