20 July 2010
China plans to boost nuclear power generation capacity nearly eightfold by 2020, to 70 giga watts, according to China’s Zhang Guobao, head of the National Energy Administration .
In 2007, China, the world’s second largest power market after the United States, set a target for of boosting its nuclear capacity to 40 GW by the end of 2020, but is likely to meet that goal five years early following a slew of project approvals.
China has 11 working reactors with 9GW of total capacity, or just over one percent of total installed power generation capacity 0f 874 GW, about three-quarters of which is fuelled by coal.
