EARLIER this month work began at a big construction site in Shandong
province, south-east of Beijing. In a country overflowing with
infrastructure projects, that seems unremarkable. Except the workers are
restarting construction of a nuclear plant using a radical new design
developed by Beijing’s Tsinghua University. This showcase of “indigenous
innovation” is the clearest signal yet that China’s nuclear power is
about to take off again.
Before 2011 China’s leaders were dead keen on it, hoping to raise
nuclear’s share of the country’s electricity mix from less than 2%. They
saw it as central to energy and climate strategy, and a future export
platform. Official plans called for expanding from just 10 gigawatts of
capacity in 2010 to as much as 200 gigawatts by 2030.
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