2023-04-30 11:05:00
Westinghouse CEO Patrick Fragman, who is in a lawsuit with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power over the intellectual property rights of the source technology of the Korean nuclear power plant APR1400, told the local media in Poland, “It is unlikely that a Korean nuclear power plant that violates intellectual property rights will be built in Poland. There will be no,” he insisted.
According to Polish journalists Energetica 24 and Polish News on the 30th, CEO Fragman said in an interview with local media on the 26th, “The nuclear power plant project promoted by Korea will never be carried out in Poland.” Because it violates controls and international law.” “It is unimaginable for a rule of law country like Poland to consider adopting a technology that violates intellectual property rights,” he said.
In October of last year, KHNP signed a letter of intent (LOI) worth 40 trillion won with Poland Electric Power Corporation (PGE) to build 2 to 4 nuclear power plants in the Fontneuf area. In the meantime, Westinghouse filed a lawsuit with the U.S. court to ban the export of APR1400, a Korean-style nuclear power plant, claiming that it is a unique technology that owns intellectual property rights. Some view this interview with CEO Fragman as a public opinion battle between Westinghouse and Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP) in order to receive maximum technology usage fees from KHNP when exporting the APR1400. Currently, KHNP and Westinghouse are in a legal dispute over the ownership of nuclear power plant technology. Westinghouse claims that KHNP’s APR1400 original technology was brought from its own technology, ‘System 80 Plus’. However, KHNP is claiming that the APR1400 is its own technology by developing its own core technologies such as coolant pumps, integrated instrumentation and control facilities, and core design codes. On the 27th (local time), Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Lee Chang-yang made a formal request to the U.S. Department of Commerce, asking the two governments to work together to quickly resolve the recent legal dispute between Korean and U.S. nuclear power companies.
KHNP immediately objected to the interview and sent refutation materials to the Polish media. Through his data, KHNP said, “It is not true that APR1400 cannot be exported to Poland without Westinghouse’s prior consent.”
Sejong = Reporter Kim Hyung-min [email protected]
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