SIDEBAR – CHINA COULD BE MOVING TOO FAST ON NUCLEAR EXPANSION
March 1st, 2011
BY MARK GODFREY
China's nuclear story began in Daya Bay, where two 944MW reactors designed and built by Framatone (now Areva) came online in 1993. By 2010, China had 9GW of installed nuclear power generating capacity. The government wants this figure to grow, but departments differ about how much is achievable and when. Targets for 2020 vary from 40GW to as high as 80GW: the State Energy Bureau said 50GW should be installed by 2020 while the China Electrical Council's target is 60GW and the State Council or cabinet suggested in 2009 that 86GW could be online by ...
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