China National Nuclear Corporation
| China National Nuclear Corporation | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Centrally managed company |
| founding | 1955 |
| Seat |
Beijing , People's Republic of China
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| Website | en.cnnc.com.cn |
The China National Nuclear Corporation ( CNNC , Chinese National Nuclear Company , Chinese 中国 核 工业 集团公司 ), the largest operator of nuclear power plants in the People's Republic of China , was founded on September 16, 1988 by a decree of the Chinese government : It sees itself as the national government office for Nuclear energy and reports directly to the State Council of the People's Republic . It combines nuclear weapons technology with the civil use of nuclear energy.
Among other things, it operates the Chinese nuclear power plants in Changjiang and Qinshan and the Chashma nuclear power plant in Pakistan .
Subsidiaries
- Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute (SNERDI, Shanghai Institute for Research and Design of Nuclear Technology ), involved in the design of the Chashma III & IV reactors; possible investment of up to 45 billion euros to build five new nuclear reactors in the UK .
Others
On August 14, 2009, the then head of the CNNC, Kang Rixin, was dismissed from his position for corruption and bribery .
In July 2013, following public protests, CNNC abandoned its plans to build a large uranium reprocessing plant at the mouth of the Pearl River for six billion euros .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Chinese nuclear chief sentenced to life imprisonment. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . November 19, 2010, accessed November 19, 2010 .
- ↑ snerdi.com.cn
- ↑ lesechos.fr, July 21, 2012: La Chine voudrait construire cinq réacteurs nucléaires en Grande-Bretagne ( China wants to build five nuclear reactors in Great Britain , July 21, 2012)
- ↑ spiegel.de: Construction freeze for uranium plant: China's regime gives way to citizen protests