2026-05-12T16:16:57.733Z / 路透社
作者：蒂莫西·加德纳
2026年5月12日 美国东部时间下午4:16 更新于2小时前
华盛顿，5月12日（路透社）——美国核电协会负责人周二表示，美国能源部正考虑一项计划，为电力公司提供数十亿美元融资，以确保那些需要耗时数年才能采购到的大型核反应堆零部件。
反应堆压力容器和蒸汽发生器等设备往往需要数年时间才能到货，该融资计划旨在缩短建造大型AP1000核电站的时间。
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“这将帮助多家有意部署AP1000反应堆的美国电力公司，”核电协会总裁兼首席执行官玛丽亚·科斯尼克在华盛顿举行的该组织会议上谈及这项融资计划时表示。
美国能源部通常不会讨论待审批的贷款申请，并未立即回应置评请求。
该部门的能源优势融资办公室拥有数千亿美元的融资援助资金，包括为难以获得银行贷款的项目提供贷款担保。在特朗普第一任期内，当时名为贷款项目办公室的该部门唯一一次动用资金，是为佐治亚州沃格特勒核电站的反应堆项目提供融资。
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美国总统唐纳德·特朗普设定目标，到2050年将美国核电装机容量增至四倍，达到400吉瓦。考虑到美国上一批在建反应堆工期延误约7年，预算超支数十亿美元，这是一项颇具挑战性的目标。
美国能源部长克里斯·赖特曾表示，能源优势融资办公室的最大资金用途将是核电站项目。
凯米科公司（CCO.TO）总裁兼首席运营官格兰特·艾萨克上周在财报电话会议上称，已有五六家电力公司在寻求能源部贷款办公室融资方面处于“非常高级的阶段”。凯米科是设计和开发AP1000反应堆的西屋公司的加拿大股东之一。艾萨克表示，这些电力公司“正考虑提前订购长交货期零部件等方式，以加快项目推进”。
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US considers financing billions of dollars for nuclear plant parts, industry group says
2026-05-12T16:16:57.733Z / Reuters
By Timothy Gardner
May 12, 2026 4:16 PM UTC Updated 2 hours ago
WASHINGTON, May 12 (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Energy is considering a plan to offer utilities billions of dollars in financing to secure components of large nuclear reactors that can take years to obtain, the head of the industry group Nuclear Energy Institute said on Tuesday.
Items such as reactor vessels and steam generators can take years to secure, and the effort would attempt to reduce the time it takes to build large AP1000 nuclear plants.
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“It’s going to help several U.S. utility companies that are interested in AP1000 deployment,” Maria Korsnick, president and CEO of NEI, said at her organization’s conference in Washington about the financing plan.
The DOE, which does not typically discuss pending loan applications, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The department’s Office of Energy Dominance Financing has hundreds of billions of dollars in financing aid, including loan guarantees for projects that struggle to get bank loans. During Trump’s first term, the only use he made of the division, known then as the Loan Programs Office, was for financing reactors at the Vogtle nuclear power plant in Georgia.
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President Donald Trump has set a goal of quadrupling U.S. nuclear power capacity to 400 gigawatts by 2050, an aggressive target considering the last reactors built in the U.S. were about seven years delayed and billions of dollars over budget.
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright has said the biggest use of the OEDF will be for nuclear power plants.
Grant Isaac, the president and chief operating officer of Cameco (CCO.TO), one of the Canadian owners of Westinghouse, which designs and develops AP1000 reactors, told an earnings call last week that five or six utilities are in “very advanced stages” of seeking financing from the DOE’s loan office. The utilities are “interested in advancing project delivery by considering things like ordering the long lead items ahead of time,” Isaac said.
Reporting by Timothy Gardner Editing by Rod Nickel
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