Very impressive! When will Western countries wake up and abandon their several decades long alarmism and hysteria about the safety of nuclear power!
While the banana republic of Germany e.g. shuts down functioning nuclear power plants!
China is also building small, modular reactors with components that can be premanufactured and assembled on site.
"According to data compiled by the US Energy Information Administration, China’s nuclear energy generation capacity nearly doubled between 2016 and 2026, growing from 31.4 gigawatts to 58.7.
The EIA also reports that 36 reactors, totaling another 38.9 GW of capacity, are currently being built in China, making up 49 percent of all global nuclear energy construction. All that development has led to learning; nuclear power plants in China are completed in an average of six years, three years faster than the global average."
"... China is building its first small modular reactor (SMR), the Linglong-1, a domestically designed 100 MWe pressurized water reactor that can be used for power generation, water desalination, and district heating. The project is intended to demonstrate commercial operation and is expected to start operation in the first half of 2026. The Linglong-1 uses the ACP100 SMR design, a modular design, allowing certain components to be built in a factory and installed onsite. ..."
China’s nuclear power capacity nearly doubled since 2016 (original news release)
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