Takashi Masui
Global Business Operations, Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd.
Masahiko Nakane
Nuclear Business Development and Management Headquarters, Nuclear Systems Div., Hitachi, Ltd.
Masatoshi Takada
Nuclear Plant Dept., Hitachi Works, Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd.
Noriaki Wada
Nuclear Systems Quality Assurance Dept., Hitachi Works, Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd.
The current state of the international nuclear power market is that numerous countries have re-evaluated nuclear energy and announced plans to construct new nuclear power stations underpinned by concerns such as global environmental problems and sudden rises in energy prices. In response to this globalization of the market, establishing international collaborative partnerships between companies in the industrial sector and elsewhere has become an important strategy for operating a global business. General Electric Company has been a partner to Hitachi since the latter first entered the nuclear business. Hitachi, Ltd. decided to integrate its nuclear power business with that of GE and in 2007 established GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC in the USA and Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd. in Japan. Hitachi, Ltd. and GE are utilizing their respective strengths to expand their nuclear power businesses globally based around these two companies. As part of this initiative, they established the ABWR Project Office in San Jose, California in the USA in April 2008 with the aim of winning new orders for ABWRs in the USA.
global nuclear energy market, advanced boiling water reactor, ABWR, unified ABWR, economic and simplified BWR, ESBWR, CANDU (Canada Deuterium Uranium) reactor
