China

In the area of fuel design and production, AREVA has been working with the Yibin fuel plant for several years. The collaboration began with an initial technology transfer of AFA 2G fuel assemblies in 1991 and continued with AFA 3G technology. Yibin currently supplies all renewable fuels for pressurized water plants at DayaBay, Qinshan and Ling Ao.

• In 2007, AREVA signed an agreement with CNJF for the supply of fuel assembly components for 4 nuclear power plants in Hongyanhe.
• The AFA 3G M5 fuel design has been selected by the Chinese nuclear power companies CNNC and CGNPC for their future 1000 MW capacity nuclear power plants: Hongyanhe, Yangjiang & Ningde (CGNPC) and Fangjiashan and Fuging (CNNC).
• CAST, a company co-owned in equal shares by AREVA and CNNC has just recently been set up in 2010 to manufacture zirconium tubes for fuel rod assemblies. The plant should be operational at the end of 2012.

The group contributed to the construction of 9 of the 11 reactors currently in operation. AREVAsupplied nuclear islands for four 1,000 MW reactors at each of the Daya Bay and Ling Ao power plants as well as technology and equipment for 4 other reactors at the Qinshan phase II, Qinshan 1 (1 x 300 MW) and Tianwan (2 x 600 MW and 2 x 1,000 MW) power plants.

• In November 2007, AREVA concluded a record agreement that is unprecedented within the global nuclear market. Together with CGNPC, AREVA has begun construction of 2 next generation EPR™ reactors in Taishan, in the province of Guangdong, and will supply all materials and services necessary for its operation. These commitments mark the start of broad and sustainable collaboration. A joint engineering company has also been established. Subsequent to a proposal made by the China Guangdong Nuclear Power Corp. (CGNPC) in November 2009,the first meeting to prepare the Coordination and Management Committee took place in Guangzhou, China. The main industrial players involved in the Taishan 1&2 project were present at this meeting. This Committee has been set up to make the TSN 1&2 project “a global showcase for the EPR™ reactor”.


• Chinese authorities also decided recently to double nuclear units at certain new and existing sites. In association with Chinese industry, AREVA will supply primary cooling system equipment and technical support for phase 2 implementation at Ling Ao II as well as control equipment based on Ling Ao technology. The group has also been entrusted with supplying control equipment and systems for phase 2 of Qinshan II.


• In December 2009, AREVA signed agreements to design reactors and supply nuclear components. One of these agreements will see the creation of WECAN, a CGNPC (55%) and AREVA (45%) joint venture that will conduct engineering studies and provide nuclear islands for new power plants that CGNPC and AREVA will be constructing in China. Another agreement will make it possible for WECAN to extend its studies and nuclear island supply services to other international markets.


• In the area of power plant components, AREVA—via its subsidiary AREVA Dongfang—won a contract worth nearly 200 million euros in December 2009 to provide 24 primary pumps for CGNPC. On the forged components market, several contracts were signed in 2009 with Chinese nuclear power plants to supply spare parts for steam generators and reactor vessels.


• CORYS T.E.S.S. and its Chinese subsidiary were awarded a contract in 2009 for the design and construction of a full-scope,full-scale model simulator for the EPR™ plant at Taishan, following an international request for bids. The full-scale simulator is designed to train plant operators and is scheduled for delivery in July 2012. The control room will be identical to that which will be installed in the plant, with its control and instrumentation system, operator’s panels and the perfect simulation of all systems required for plant operation.
• Chinese utility (Jiangsu Nuclear Power Corporation), a subsidiary of CNNC (China Nation Nuclear Corporation) allocated to AREVA a new contract, so reaffirming its confidence to the Group. A consortium, led by AREVA, will deliver the digital safety and complementary operational instrumentation & control (I&C) systems for the Tianwan 3 and 4 WER 1000MW class reactors. Construction will start in 2012.

A November 2007 intergovernmental agreement paved the way for an industrial collaboration to construct a used fuel treatment and recycling plant. The project began in 2008 with a pre-feasibility study.

AREVA has also signed partnership agreements with Chinese research institutes and companies to provide services as well as technology transfer agreements that will enable China to access all reactor technology and manufacture powerful fuels.

AREVA is positioning itself within this high-potential market to use its knowledge and expertise to provide China with environmentally responsible power generation solutions.

AREVA possesses bioenergy plants in China and discussions are in progress with the government in JiangsuProvince to work together to build wind farms.