Making future energy safer: High-Tech industrial cables for new nuclear power stations in China In 2008 Prysmian was awarded a contract in China in the strategic, high-tech sector of cables for nuclear power stations. China Nuclear Power Engineering Company has awarded the Group a contract to design, produce and install special cables of type K1 (inside the reactor) and type K3 (outside the reactor) which will be used to cable two new nuclear power stations being built in Liaoning and Fujian provinces. In particular, the K1 cables are designed to withstand high radioactive loads and are tested under the LOCA test (Loss of Coolant Accident), which certifies their resistance even after leakage of the reactor cooling agent (heavy water). This contract is of particular strategic importance for Prysmian, as it concerns special cables designed and manufactured utilising Prysmian's proprietary technology, developed in over two decades of experience of collaborating with the world's largest developers and managers of nuclear power stations. A key factor in securing this contract, which lasts 4 years, was Prysmian's ability to develop and build part of the required products directly in China, at its new plant in Tianjin, as well as at its specialist plant in Paron, France.