Rumsfeld – who is one of the Bush administration’s most strident “hardliners” on North Korea – was a member of ABB’s board between 1990 and February 2001, when he left to take up his current post.
The company finalised the sale of its nuclear business in early 2000 to the British-based BNFL group.
So...did ABB have the contract or BNFL? I am sooooo confused...
The ABB contract was to deliver equipment and services for two nuclear power stations at Kumho, on North Korea’s east coast.
I'm not sure what this contract was for but I don't think it was for a complete Nuclear Power Plant or reactors, but rather for the steam supply systems based upon my read of the press release announcing the contract..... $200 million sure doesn't buy you two 1,000 MW nuclear power plants by any stretch.
Under the terms of the contracts, ABB will provide engineering, design and components for the two 1,000-megawatt (Mwe) light water nuclear steam supply systems. The systems are an advanced version of ABB’s System 80 design, which is being employed under license in eight reactors in South Korea.Another bungled job of reporting, but then that may have been the intent all along......