KEDO's LWR Project: Unique Challenges in a Nuclear Power Project by Any Standard

Conference · Mon Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 2002

OSTI ID:21062369

Choi, HanKwon; Mulligan, John B ^[1]; Crom, Thomas D

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1. Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization - KEDO, Third Avenue 12th Floor New York, NY 10016 (United States)

In 1994 the United States of America and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) signed the Agreed Framework in which the DPRK committed to shut down their graphite-moderated reactors and related facilities and to remain a party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. In return the U.S. agreed, among other things, to deliver two light water reactor (LWR) units to the DPRK which should meet international safety standards. For the implementation of this Agreed Framework, the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO) was founded. KEDO decided to build two units of the Korea Standard Nuclear Power Plant (KSNP) model, which is a proven design of U.S. origin. This paper describes the status of this project (the LWR project) and the unique challenges that KEDO must overcome to implement the construction and commissioning of this project and have the DPRK ready for plant takeover. (authors)

• Research Organization: The ASME Foundation, Inc., Three Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016-5990 (United States)
• OSTI ID: 21062369
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS
COMMISSIONING
CONSTRUCTION
DESIGN
GRAPHITE MODERATED REACTORS
IMPLEMENTATION
NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY
NUCLEAR POWER
NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
REPUBLIC OF KOREA
SAFETY STANDARDS
WATER COOLED REACTORS
WATER MODERATED REACTORS