Hualong One 2.0 Anti-Corrosion System Upgrade: COSCO Kansai Joins Forces with CGN to Tackle Localization of Nuclear Power Coatings

en.Wedoany.com Reported - On September 2, 2026, COSCO Kansai's Jinshan Plant hosted an important exchange concerning the future of China's nuclear power anti-corrosion technology. Tang Huan, General Manager of COSCO Kansai, received Yu Wenyu, Director of CGN's Procurement Center, and her delegation, accompanied by relevant business heads from CGN's Procurement Center. Chen Jinfeng, Deputy General Manager of COSCO Kansai's Industrial Anti-Corrosion Coatings Division, presided over the proceedings, with Jiang Tao, Director of the Technology Center, and core technical and marketing team members all in attendance. The two parties engaged in in-depth discussions around the joint R&D project for Hualong One 2.0 anti-corrosion products, jointly exploring new pathways for technological innovation and industrial application of high-end nuclear power anti-corrosion coatings. This seemingly ordinary corporate visit in fact carries the profound proposition of independent controllability across China's nuclear power industry chain.

As a benchmark enterprise in the localization of domestic nuclear power specialty anti-corrosion coatings, COSCO Kansai has been deeply engaged in the nuclear power coatings field for many years, accumulating deep R&D and application strength. The company is one of the few coating suppliers in China capable of fully covering mainstream nuclear power reactor types, possesses independent intellectual property rights for nuclear power coatings, and has successfully broken foreign technological monopolies. Leveraging a professional R&D platform and years of engineering accumulation, COSCO Kansai has served China's three major nuclear power groups and delivered projects for dozens of nuclear power units, with strong market reputation and practical experience. Behind these hard strengths lies a path of localization advancement from technology introduction to independent innovation, and from single-point breakthroughs to systematic coverage.

During the discussion, the two parties, grounded in the development needs of the high-end anti-corrosion field for nuclear power engineering, conducted detailed deliberations around the anti-corrosion system upgrade for Hualong One 2.0 units, new coating product development, performance indicator optimization, engineering adaptability, and implementation application plans. In August 2026, as China's most advanced nuclear power technology, Hualong One 2.0 was approved by the State Council and demonstration engineering construction was launched. This technology is an iterative upgrade of Hualong One, with its design service life extended to 80 years and comprehensive improvements in safety and economics. This major engineering milestone imposes more stringent requirements on anti-corrosion coatings, including longer service life, stronger environmental adaptability, and higher safety redundancy. COSCO Kansai's technical team, drawing on its own technological advantages, elaborated in detail on its specialized R&D approach and key technical research directions, fully aligning with the upgrade and iteration needs of Hualong One 2.0. From formulation design to performance verification, from laboratory data to engineering scenario simulation, every technical solution points to one goal: enabling domestic anti-corrosion coatings to withstand the dual test of time and safety in nuclear power engineering of the highest standards.

The CGN Procurement Center delegation fully affirmed COSCO Kansai's technological accumulation and R&D strength. Combining project construction standards with actual scenarios, the delegation put forward optimization requirements, and the two parties reached a preliminary consensus on R&D progress, technical alignment, and implementation cooperation models. Both parties agreed that this joint R&D is of profound significance for improving the localized anti-corrosion system for nuclear power and enhancing the safety assurance capability of nuclear power engineering. This collaborative model—where demand drives R&D and R&D supports engineering—is precisely a hallmark of China's nuclear power industry chain moving toward maturity.

During the exchange, Yu Wenyu and her delegation visited COSCO Kansai's Technology Center R&D laboratory and testing platform on site, gaining an in-depth understanding of the full-process system for coating formulation R&D, performance testing, and quality control. From raw material screening to finished product delivery, from accelerated aging experiments to extreme working condition simulation, every step intuitively demonstrated the company's hard strength in high-end coating R&D. During the visit, exchanges between technical personnel from both sides deepened continuously—from microscopic formulations to macroscopic applications, from current needs to future iterations—as numerous technical details gradually became clear through dialogue.

This exchange further deepened the strategic synergy between the two parties. COSCO Kansai will take the localization of nuclear power coatings as a breakthrough point, courageously shoulder the mission of independent controllability of core technologies, accelerate the transformation of innovative achievements, and build a solid foundation for nuclear power safety with ultimate quality. Joining hands and advancing together, the two parties will powerfully drive the upgrading of the national industry chain, contribute hardcore strength to building a nuclear power powerhouse under the "dual carbon" goals, and jointly shape a new benchmark for China's intelligent manufacturing.

From a factory laboratory to the engineering sites of dozens of nuclear power units, from a single technological breakthrough to collaboration across the entire industry chain, this handshake between COSCO Kansai and CGN is not only the advancement of a commercial cooperation but also a vivid footnote to China's nuclear power anti-corrosion technology moving from catching up to leading. When Hualong One 2.0 rises in future demonstration projects, those invisible anti-corrosion coatings will become the first line of defense safeguarding nuclear power safety, and a silent witness to China's leap from manufacturing to creation.