China Nuclear Power Poised for Export in `Self-Reliance’ Bid
NOV 30, 2007
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.021718
Bloomberg : China is gearing up to become the world’s biggest producer and operator of nuclear plants. The country plans to build about 30 new reactors by 2020, at a cost totaling 450 billion yuan ($61 billion). Deals signed this year with Westinghouse Electric Co. and Areva SA will put the Chinese in position to copy the latest technology. Its biggest threat may be as a competitor in selling the $3 billion to $5 billion nuclear plants at home and abroad. China’s atomic industry may follow the copy-and-compete blueprint laid out by local makers of cars, drugs and coal-fired power plants says Bloomberg’s Dune Lawrence and Alan Katz .See also: Stronger Future for Nuclear Power Physics Today, February 2006 Nuclear Power to Explode in India, but China Prefers Coal New Picks, October 2007 Africa’s Pursuit of Nuclear Power , Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, November 2007
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