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And they're roughly a decade behind schedule on their nuclear plans, and roughly a decade ahead of schedule on their renewable plans.
by ZeroGravitas 2y ago
And they're roughly a decade behind schedule on their nuclear plans, and roughly a decade ahead of schedule on their renewable plans.
- defrost 2y agoHow are they ten years behind on a schedule launched three years ago?
- ZeroGravitas 2y agoThe Chinese publish their plans on a 5 year schedule. They abandoned all plans for inland nuclear plants, in total they cancelled twice as much nuclear as the US has currently running. China is right now just reaching the goal it set for 2020 capacity in 2016 and things appear to be slowing down.
- travisporter 2y agoI just don’t get this. Why is it so damn hard to do nuclear anywhere when France does it so well? You’d think regulations in china would not be the reason
- epistasis 2y agoFrance is not doing nuclear well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor) > In December 2007, construction of the unit itself began. This was expected to last 54 months, with commissioning planned for 2012 However it is still under construction. Olkiluoto was also a major disaster for France, though it was eventually completed. South Korea is probably the best example for nuclear construction success, but they have had to jail a few people for forging inspection results. All in all, I think China has done fairly well with nuclear. Nuclear is a massive project that is insanely complex. It is not helped by trivializing the complexity, nor is it helped when people focus more on public opposition than the construction challenges, IMHO.