CHINA STICKS WITH NUCLEAR AFTER JAOAN DISASTER, BUT EXPECT SHORT TERM REACTOR APPROVAL DELAYS
April 1st, 2011
BY MARK GODFREY
THE HEADLINES said it all. Chinese newspapers have recently been heavy with editorials and op-ed pieces largely favourable to nuclear power: among them 'This Is Not the End of Nuke Power' a half-page op-ed in the China Daily, the preferred conduit of China's official thinking to foreign diplomats and executives.
Targeted at the domestic audience, the People's Daily, China's influential Communist Party mouthpiece, has been equally pro-nuclear power in the wake of Fukushima, giving space to science minister Wan Gang who pledged more research on ...
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