To Win Nuclear Power Plant Projects in U.K.
Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) announced on Feb. 2 that its president Cheong Seung-il visited the United Kingdom for two days from Jan. 31 to Feb. 1 to meet with high-ranking officials from the U.K. government, parliament and industrial world.
Cheong attended the Nuclear Week in Parliament, sponsored by the U.K. Parliament and organized by the U.K. Nuclear Industry Association (NIA). The event was attended by Grant Shapps, U.K. secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy (BEIS), over 100 U.K. lawmakers, and high-ranking officials from the U.K. government and nuclear power industry.
Cheong introduced the Korean-type nuclear reactor (APR1400) and expressed KEPCO’s will to actively participate in British nuclear power plant projects.
He held a meeting with Shapps to seek cooperation in KEPCO's participation in the U.K.’s nuclear power plant market. He drew the U.K. official's attention to the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant in the UAE, which uses Korea's APR1400 nuclear reactors.
Cheong also requested cooperation at the parliamentary level in meetings with Virginia Crosbie, an MP from the Conservative Party, Lord Bryony Worthington, and John Whittingdale, who is the Prime Minister's trade envoy to South Korea.
Meanwhile, Cheong also listened to advice on KEPCO’s participation in the U.K. nuclear power plant projects from Sama Bilbao y Leon, director general of the World Nuclear Association (WNA), and Tom Greatrex, CEO of the Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) of the United Kingdom.