Getting heavy

摘要

As vendors ready themselves for orders for new reactors from around the world, the supply chain for specialised reactor components has also been gearing up. Today's reactor vendors are not the integrated reactor suppliers of the 1970s and 1980s. Reactor components for the nuclear renaissance will be sourced from a range of suppliers. Promises from reactor constructors to develop and use local sources of supply wherever possible are becoming a recurring theme: Westinghouse has gone so far as to name it the 'We Buy Where We Build' approach.