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AECL Track Record – On Time, On Budget

AECL Has Proven Project Management Expertise – On Time, On Budget

  • AECL has been building reactors almost continuously for the past 30 years and has the strongest project management delivery capability of any nuclear vendor in the world.
  • QinshanA leader among nuclear vendors, AECL has designed, built and delivered six CANDU 6 reactors to international customers in the last decade.  All of these projects have been delivered on or ahead of schedule, and on budget. 
  • The first CANDU unit at China’s Qinshan project took only four and a half years from first concrete to in-service, making it a record for power reactors built in China. The Chinese government has praised it as the best nuclear project in the country’s history. 

AECL Track Record:

In Service Date

Plant

Status

1996

Cernavoda Unit 1, Romania

On budget, on schedule*

1997

Wolsong Unit 2, S. Korea

On budget, on schedule

1998

Wolsong Unit 3, S. Korea

On budget, on schedule

1999

Wolsong Unit 4, S. Korea

On budget, on schedule

2002

Qinshan Phase III, Unit 1 China

Under budget, 6 weeks ahead of schedule

2003

Qinshan Phase III, Unit 2, China

Under budget, 4 months ahead of schedule

2007

Cernavoda, Unit 2, Romania

85% complete

 
* As per 1991 completion contract

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