nuclear plant 300x218 Chinas ambition in Nuclear Power Expansion (核电站前景无限)China has an ambitious plan to expand the nuclear power capacity in the next decade (See Article from NYT). While such plan makes perfect business sense, it raises the concern on the safety as most nuclear plants are new big cities and any slight leakage or sign of accident would put milions of people exposed and potential civil unrest. Therefore China is seeking international help to get more qualified nuclear inspectors as a start. As of today, China’s nuclear plants generate about nine gigawatts of power with full capacity utilized, which is about 2.7% of the country’s need. China government targets to increase the capacity to 70 Gigawatts by 2020 and 400 Gigawatts by 2040. Some of the nation’s biggest nuclear plants already got the greenlight to go ahead as part of the effort to meet above targets (See Article from Chinatells).

中国在未来十年有宏大的发展核电站产能的计划。根据政府最新的目标，在2020年之前争取将核电发电能力从目前的9兆瓦增加到70兆瓦，并且在2040年以前增加到400兆瓦。如此快速的增长也给政府带来了一些安全隐忧。鉴于切尔诺贝利的前车之鉴，政府在核电安全方面不敢有丝毫马虎。

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