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China / Fast Pace Of Nuclear Construction ‘Flies In Face’ Of Longstanding Claims, Says Report

By David Dalton
22 March 2024

Beijing has completed every large-scale reactor project ‘in under a decade’

Fast Pace Of Nuclear Construction ‘Flies In Face’ Of Longstanding Claims, Says Report
File photo from 2023 of construction at the two-unit Zhangzhou nuclear powern staton in China. Courtesy CNNC.
Nearly every Chinese nuclear project that has entered service since 2010 has achieved construction in seven years or less, a trend that flies in the face of the longstanding claims that nuclear reactors require a decade or more to build, the pro-nuclear research centre the Breakthrough Institute said.

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