US nuclear equipment producer Westinghouse Electric Company has been awarded a contract by China-based Liaoning Nuclear Power Company Limited and China Nuclear Power Engineering Company to provide instrumentation and control systems (I&C) for the planned Units 1 and 2 at the Xudabu nuclear power station.

According to earlier reports, Xudabu-1 and -2 had been planned to be Generation III CAP1000 plants, China’s domestic version of the Westinghouse AP1000 pressurised water reactor (PWR) design, but construction has not yet begun.