CHINA remains open to the third-generation nuclear power technologies of France and Russia though it has adopted AP 1000 developed by United States-based Westinghouse, said a senior executive of the State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation yesterday.

China's first third-generation pressurized water reactors adopting Westinghouse technology will be put into commercial operation at the end of 2013, said Ma Lu, vice president of the SNPTC, at the China-ASEAN Power Cooperation and Development Forum.