Sellafield Vitrification should ensure safe storage of waste in the UK for the middle to long term. Construction of the Sellafield MOX Plant (SMP) was completed in 1997, though justification for the operation of the plant was not achieved until October 2001. Mixed oxide, or MOX fuel, is a blend of plutonium and natural uranium or depleted uranium which behaves similarly (though not identically) to the enriched uranium feed for which most nuclear reactors were designed. MOX fuel is an alternative to low enriched uranium (LEU) fuel used in the light water reactors which predominate in nuclear power generation. MOX also
China General Nuclear Power Group believed to be the company's best example of what the company has to offer. This has been developed into the Generation III Hualong One design. In February 2007, CGN signed a contract with Areva to build Taishan nuclear station with Areva's EPR, and the Xianning nuclear station will use Westinghouse Electric Company's AP1000. These two events makes this company among the first to build a nuclear station with generation III+ reactors. Operating stations: Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant and Ling Ao Nuclear Power Plant phase I. Under construction: Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Plant, Ningde Nuclear Power Plant, Yangjiang Nuclear Power Station,