2019 Ki young/Shutterstock Save for later Print Download Share LinkedIn Twitter US-based Westinghouse and South Korea's top nuclear firms have launched settlement negotiations over their legal and commercial dispute as to whether Seoul's reactor export drive impinges on both Westinghouse's intellectual property rights and Washington's nuclear export controls. But any compromise will be a heavy lift, particularly given the US government's worries that any backing down by the US side might pave the way for Korea Electric Power Co. (Kepco) to supply Saudi Arabia with APR1400 reactors without US export controls. The thinking goes that this would undermine Washington's efforts to convince Riyadh to sign a "gold standard" nonproliferation agreement committing Saudi Arabia not to pursue uranium enrichment or reprocessing.
