■ Host: Lee Kwang-yeon Anchor
■ Physical appearance: Joo Han-kyu / Professor, Section of Nuclear Engineering, Seoul Nationwide College
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Korea Hydro & Nuclear Electric power has won a 3 trillion successful agreement for a nuclear energy plant in Egypt. It is the first trillion-greenback nuclear electric power plant exported in 13 decades since 2009.
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Let us consider a glance at the significance of the very first overseas nuclear electric power plant buy in 13 years and the remaining tasks, alongside with Professor Joo Han-kyu of Seoul Countrywide University’s Nuclear Engineering Department. Welcome, Professor.
[주한규]
Hello.
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He won a $ 3 trillion contract to make a nuclear electrical power plant in El Dava, Egypt. What does it signify to be element of a 40 trillion winning project?
[주한규]
Even though we are not the main element of the nuclear electrical power plant, we have been ready to take part in the development and supply of secondary systems soon after the auxiliary products, so that the nuclear electric power plant field was on the verge of dying because there was no meanwhile, the design of nuclear ability crops. I feel that is this sort of a substantial purchase to deliver.
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I summarized the small business scheme future to the professor, in distinct it is important to appear at the articles of the order that Korea been given.
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Of course. The reactor has a dome-formed reactor creating and future to it is a turbine setting up. There, the turbine is turned to produce electrical power, and the reactor and steam generator in the nuclear reactor are the major devices, and the turbine and generator are the key equipment. do issues like that. They also build a turbine making in the vicinity of the nuclear electricity plant and source all ancillary machines to it.
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So, the development of the turbine creating is the element you just stated, so it appears that some persons point out that this is a construction of the developing.
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This is a misunderstanding. It is not just a creating, there is a great deal of machines and tools likely into it. auxiliary gadgets. items like that alongside one another. This is due to the fact we have such a entire provide chain for nuclear electrical power crops, so Russia saw it and gave it to us so that we could get the supply from our place.
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perfectly. I have heard that private providers, like KHNP, have been getting ready for this purchase for five many years and this time the agreement has been manufactured. On the other hand, in the procedure, there was issue that the outbreak of the Ukrainian war might also be a variable below. How did it go?
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In fact, this initial started in June 2016, as KHNP officials have to fully export nuclear energy plants to promote nuclear electricity in Korea. We turned to Russia’s Rosatom, which is incredibly energetic in the marketplace. So there was Vietnam, and then Egypt, and so on, and we finished up buying it with an Egyptian a single, and what Korea effectively developed in the UAE desert in Barakah gained a really significant evaluation and received an purchase there.
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So, in the situation of Korea, we had currently received an get for a nuclear electrical power plant from the UAE in 2009, but it’s been 13 several years and this time we have gained the get. Having said that, this has which means in alone, but there is a part exactly where we are wanting for the preliminary meaning of this purchase of nuclear power vegetation. There was a tale about the African nuclear energy plant.
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Now, this is the first nuclear energy plant in Africa, and this is the Mediterranean facet going through the Mediterranean side at the northern conclusion of Africa, and that is a desert location. It is a desert space exterior the Nile River basin delta and the building potential we very first created in the UAE in the desert region would use right here as nicely.
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properly. If you look at it now, you are chatting about the competitiveness of nuclear electric power, in other terms, nuclear power plant K. What sort of competitiveness do you have in phrases of technology and device value?
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For the previous 40 many years, Korea has ongoing to establish two nuclear electricity plants each and every three yrs. So we have a total supply chain, we can do it all by ourselves. So, initially of all, the selling price competitiveness is outstanding. That is why it is less costly than nuclear ability plants in the US, 1/3, France and Russia. Just after that, the technological know-how is extremely excellent, so it is really valued in the environment industry.
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Korea is the only country that has created a nuclear electrical power plant in the desert, there appears to be to be this sort of a tale.
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Certainly. A put like a desert is very first of all hot. The sea water temperature is large and there are sandstorms and the like. To run commonly and properly in such a special setting, lots of style changes are needed, in contrast to the layout of the nuclear electric power plant initially planned to be crafted in Korea. For illustration, given that the seawater is incredibly hot there, the discharge temperature rises, so you have to do anything like a seawater bypass pump that mixes the drinking water from the discharge aspect to a single side, and consequently there they will be sandstorms.
So we have to have a system like Windows and everything that can filter the sand. We experienced to do a great deal extra air conditioning than we did in Korea, so there have been a lot of structure adjustments. This is what Russia has valued extremely well. [앵커] Judging by the media headlines about this massive-scale get, it is a indicator of the rebirth of the nuclear power plant sector. Also, there was an expectation that the ecosystem would be restored, that it would be restored. What does it indicate for the ecosystem to be restored?
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Around the past 4 several years, the phasing out of nuclear electrical power has been quite decisive, but the greatest destruction is the failure to build a new nuclear electricity plant. That’s why, the revenue of the nuclear electric power plant market and production business dropped dramatically, and the product sales, which would normally be all over 5 trillion received, dropped to considerably less than 3 trillion won, ensuing in a cumulative loss of about 6. 7 trillion won over the past five years.
And the number of individuals working in the manufacturing sector of nuclear power crops has diminished by 17% from 22,000 to 18,000 people today, so some people today have remaining the sector and there have been employers who have closed their organizations mainly because there was no. operate. trader and can deliver although it does, it will be a sign of revival.
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So, as you mentioned, Korea constructed about two nuclear electric power plants in 3 years, and now it truly is absent. Nonetheless, because of to this order for a nuclear power plant, as significantly as I know, it is having aspect in the tender for the Czech project in November. Do you consider this know-how will be practical yet again?
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It would be useful to design a appropriate design for the other state and suggest our contractual conditions. On the other hand, building of the Czech gun will get started in 2029. The Egyptian case will be a lot a lot more handy for the nuclear market, which is dying right now.
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What if there are some factors we have to bounce on? To start with, in the circumstance of Russia, it is acknowledged as a competitor and it appears like there will be quite a few opponents. Absence of supply technologies From this issue of see.
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Relatively, the nations around the world that can contend with us in the international current market are Russia, China and then the United States. We ought to transfer forward in a cooperative marriage. What can be mentioned challenging is that even areas like Saudi Arabia want to do our detail due to the fact of Korea’s skill to create deserts. There is a political challenge and it is a little bit complicated to do, but I think we need to perform perfectly with the United States to share a portion of it, or by accomplishing so, we can get to Saudi Arabia and Poland as perfectly.
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As I have observed previously, in this Eldava Nuclear Electric power Plant Project Strategy, the job period of time is from 2022 to 2030. Once the get is gained, it will just take months or years for the precise get to be positioned.
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From the finish of this year, the operators will be picked and the machines will be supplied future 12 months and the next 12 months. [앵커] So what type of help do you require? [주한규] The support is that there will be some corporations in the field that have misplaced their workforce. There is hope for these individuals in the upcoming, so be sure to go back.
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We talked briefly before, but there will be gives for the Czech business enterprise and there will be far more offers like this in the foreseeable future. What are the crucial factors to think about when bidding and what degree of competitiveness does Korea have?
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There can be several difficulties in developing in that nation. We have constructed very well in the desert, but for example, we are also wanting to enter the British isles. In the United kingdom, we need to have to increase different funds and create and develop some area providers, and we have to have to take into account these specifications.
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Fantastic. We examined the significance of successful an overseas nuclear energy plant purchase for the 1st time in 13 yrs. I labored with Professor Hankyu Joo from Seoul National University’s Division of Nuclear Engineering. Professor, thank you.
[주한규]
Thank you.
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