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As China’s nuclear power industry flounders, should India and Pakistan take note?

China pursued nuclear energy even as countries around the world abandoned it. But slowing demand and competition from renewables have halted new approvals.  Scroll In , Feng Hao 

As countries around the world abandoned nuclear power, China had bucked the trend, embracing nuclear power as a reliable and cheap energy source that would help reduce air pollution from burning coal. Now nuclear development in China is floundering, with the overcapacity in the power sector and fierce price competition with solar, wind and hydropower. Wider concerns about safety and lack of water (of which nuclear power plants demands a huge amount) also play a part.

The tribulations of China’s nuclear industry should be of interest to South Asian countries like India and Pakistan that harbour their own nuclear ambitions, often for similar reasons that China had continued pursuing it. With water availability a growing challenge in these countries, the amount of water that nuclear power plants need will create a three-way demand between need for domestic use, agriculture, and nuclear power. Nor will large centralised plants, with the consequent challenges of distribution of power to remote regions, deal with the problem of providing electricity to the most marginalised regions, something that flexible and distributed energy models using renewable energy do far, far better……….https://scroll.in/article/873386/as-chinas-nuclear-power-industry-flounders-should-india-and-pakistan-take-note

 

March 31, 2018 - Posted by | general

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