China Nuclear Power Poised for Export in `Self-Reliance' Bid

Bloomberg: China is gearing up to become the world's biggest producer and operator of nuclear plants. The country plans to build about 30 new reactors by 2020, at a cost totaling 450 billion yuan ($61 billion). Deals signed this year with Westinghouse Electric Co. and Areva SA will put the Chinese in position to copy the latest technology. Its biggest threat may be as a competitor in selling the $3 billion to $5 billion nuclear plants at home and abroad. China's atomic industry may follow the copy-and-compete blueprint laid out by local makers of cars, drugs and coal-fired power plants says Bloomberg's Dune Lawrence and Alan Katz.

See also:
Stronger Future for Nuclear Power Physics Today, February 2006
Nuclear Power to Explode in India, but China Prefers Coal New Picks, October 2007
Africa's Pursuit of Nuclear Power, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, November 2007