Development Strategy Of Candu Reactor Plant In Present Nuclear Power Generation Market

Nowadays an important opportunity is presenting in the nuclearpower generation market of china. The national ministry has changed theprevious developing nuclear power actively into vigorously. The mediumand long-term nuclear power generation program proved by nationalministry in2007has confirmed that by2020the installed nuclear powercapacity will be40GWe. In early2009, this program has also revised dueto energy development conditions. The new version of the nuclearcapacity to be installed by2020will reach5%(75GWe) of the totalinstalled capacity, and output to be8%.Under these circumstances of bursting development of nuclearmarket, choosing of the reactor type will be critical. Presently the nationalpolicy has already listed the pressurized light water reactor as the mainreactor type in china. The nuclear power plant sites along the coast lineswill be installed the second and half generation of reactors, and inlandsites will choose the third generation–AP1000. therefore the heavy waterreactor that the author is working for will be facing a tough market competition.The Heavy water reactor (PHWR) is a kind of nuclear reactor thathas many unique features in the market. It uses heavy water as moderatorand coolant, it uses the natural uranium as fuel and can perform refuelingactivities without shutdown the core. It can produce radionuclide and canalso use recovered fuel from other light water reactors and even thoriumfuel. PHWR has some competing features that can help it carry out adeferential competition strategy in present market.The author analyzed the present nuclear market and gave somethoughts that may constraint the development of the market. The PHWRis analyzed in detail using SWOT approach to summarize the majorstrategy of PHWR and its implementation measures.