Right, it's planned. So far they have a demonstrator with 200MWe output. It supposed to be scaled up to 600MWe. Small designs are generally not cost efficient.

Right, it's planned. So far they have a demonstrator with 200MWe output. It supposed to be scaled up to 600MWe. Small designs are generally not cost efficient. These reactors are not that new, since they are in part based on old designs, for example from the AVR in Germany. A larger attempt was this 300MWe pebble bed reactor, which failed spectacularly in the 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THTR-300 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THTR-300 > my recent visits it feels like going to the future instead and the slow realisation they completely passed us by has set Environmental Performance Index from 2022: China is at place 160. https://epi.yale.edu/epi-results/2022/component/epi https://epi.yale.edu/epi-results/2022/component/epi Check the electricity mix over the last years: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/chinas-new-coal-plants-set-become-costly-second-fiddle-renewables-2023-03-22/ https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/chinas-new-coal-plan... It's mostly coal. Not much nuclear. They are building hundreds of new coal power plants...