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Sounds they plan to make quite a few more: "plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than doubling nuclear power capacity this decade" China had ~50 GW
by fulafel 5y ago
Sounds they plan to make quite a few more: "plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than doubling nuclear power capacity this decade"
China had ~50 GW of installed NPP capacity at the start of the decade (according to WP), so this would mean getting 50+ big new plants online this decade. They seem to plan for ~7 year construction times so these would need to be started by end of next year. Anyone know how many are currently under construction?
They started the decade at about 5% nuclear energy share of total production so if they make the target, they'll be probably somewhere between 5 and 10% depending how much the total electricity production capacity increases.
- adhesive_wombat 5y agoThey apparently have over 200 reactors "in development" (i.e. announced), of which 19 are under construction, and another 43 waiting for approval.[1] [1]: https://www.energymonitor.ai/sectors/power/weekly-data-chinas-nuclear-pipeline-as-big-as-the-rest-of-the-worlds-combined https://www.energymonitor.ai/sectors/power/weekly-data-china...