GE design for Korean plant

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will manufacture and install two 1,455-megawatt, N2R steam turbines for two new reactors at the Shin Kori nuclear power plant in Kori, south eastern

. GE will design and provide key components for the machines, which will be the largest 60-hertz steam turbines in the world.

Shin Kori is operated by Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP), a subsidiary of Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO).

Doosan is supplying the GE-designed steam turbines as part of its contract with KHNP to help build the new nuclear power plant at Shin Kori, a two-unit pressurised water reactor facility. The machines will feature a new GE-designed, 52-inch last-stage bucket group and a three-dimensional aero steam path.

The two steam turbines will be installed as units 3 & 4 at Shin Kori, with a combined output of 2,900 megawatts. Doosan’s steam turbine order is the latest project in South Korea for GE, which has provided more than half of the Korean nuclear industry’s steam turbines.