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Southwest Reactor Engineering Research
and Design Academy
西南反应推工程研究中心
OTHER NAMES: Nuclear Power Institute of China (NPIC), Southwest Institute, Southwest Center for Reactor Engineering Research (SWCR), Southwest Reactor Engineering Research and Design Center, Southwestern Research and Design Institute of Reactor Engineering, First Academy
PRESIDENT: Yang Qi
Located in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. Currently conducting research and development for the AC-600 Advanced pressurized water reactor (PWR). Responsible for the Qinshan-2 and-3 reactors with the China Academy of Atomic Science. It also develops nuclear fuel elements and radiation techniques and produces isotopes.
On 21 October 1994, China's National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA) certified China's first 500 MW test loop installed at the Academy. The test loop is used for radiation tests and monitoring of nuclear fuel elements.
[Sources: Yan Kong, "China's Nuclear Bureaucracy," Jane's Intelligence Review, July 1993, pp. 323, 326; Chen Zhaobo, "Development Of Nuclear Power In China," Nuclear Europe Worldscan, November-December 1995, p. 49; Ann Maclachlan, "Framatome Wins CNNC Deal For Qinshan Vessels, In-core Systems," Nucleonics Week, 4 January 1996, p. 11; "China: Nuclear Safety Program Reviewed," S&T Perspectives, 28 February 1995, p. 18; Tang Zongyu, "Guide to Chinese nuclear organizations," Nuclear Europe Worldscan, November/December 1999, p. 58.]
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