[RT] Beijing is forecast to triple its nuclear capacity in the next 20 years, ousting the US as number one nuclear-power producer, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).
“China is coming back strong. Today there are about 60 nuclear power plants under construction and more than one-third of them are in China. China is growing and as a result of that we’ll soon see China overtaking the United States as the Number 1 nuclear power in the world,” the IEA CEO Fatih Birol said, as quoted by Marketwatch.
| Nuclear power? What does that have to do with power production? China has four times the population of the U.S., and while they are #1 in electrical production and consumption to our #2, on a per capita basis China has a long way to go to catch up. Even in terms of nuclear power plants, we get 9.2% of our electricity from that source (18th in the world), though apparently we have the most plants, while China gets 2% (28th in the world). I only hope they will not apply the same mindset to maintenance as they have thus far to debt or preventing pollution. |
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