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Despite safety doubts, China resumes building big nuclear power plant

China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection said in a report in
October that the country’s nuclear safety situation was “not
optimistic”, and that the use of differing types of reactors in
Chinese plants made the sector “difficult to manage”.

China resumes construction of ‘biggest’ nuclear plant Australia
Network News, 4 Jan 13 Chinese state media says the country has
resumed construction of a nuclear power plant suspended after the 2011
Fukushima disaster.

The China Internet Information Center says work on the plant in
Rongcheng in eastern China’s Shandong province resumed last month.

It says the Shidao Bay plant is the country’s biggest planned nuclear
project. The plant is expected to begin supplying electricity to the
grid by 2017….. In October, China lifted a ban on new nuclear power
stations imposed in 2011 after Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant
meltdown, when the facility was struck by a tsunami. There are 15
operational commercial nuclear reactors in China, which has ambitious
plans to expand its nuclear industry, with 27 reactors under
construction near coastal areas, according to the World Nuclear
Association.

China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection said in a report in
October that the country’s nuclear safety situation was “not
optimistic”, and that the use of differing types of reactors in
Chinese plants made the sector “difficult to manage”. There are 15
operational commercial nuclear reactors in China, which has ambitious
plans to expand its nuclear industry, with 27 reactors under
construction near coastal areas, according to the World Nuclear
Association.

China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection said in a report in
October that the country’s nuclear safety situation was “not
optimistic”, and that the use of differing types of reactors in
Chinese plants made the sector “difficult to manage”.

January 7, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | China, politics