CHINA NUCLEAR INDUSTRY EXPANSION PLANS – POLITICAL CONCERNS
February 1st, 2006
BY DAVID EIMER, in Beijing
"Build nuclear power, enrich the people", proclaim the billboards at China's Qinshan nuclear facility in the south-eastern province of Zhejiang. Qinshan, a 120 kilometres south of Shanghai, is the centre of China's nuclear sector and home to five of the country's nine operational reactors. But as the world's nuclear industry waits for the Chinese to confirm an US$8 billion contract to build four new reactors, the slogans on the billboards at Qinshan seem like empty words.
The announcement in 2004 by Kang Rixin, President of ...
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