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China may soon build 300 gigawatts of n-plant capacity China news November 6, 2004
China may soon build 300 gigawatts of n-plant capacity
...[C]onsider the enormous energy needs of China's helter-skelter industrialisation. The rate at which the world's most populous country is burning through oil and gas is staggering. China's oil consumption doubled in the past 10 years, making it the second-largest oil consumer behind the US. It is not surprising, then, that it is at the forefront of developing new nuclear technology, environmental concerns or not. Scientific advisers to China's government reckon the country will soon need a nuclear output of 300 gigawatts, Wired magazine reported in September - not far short of the 350 gigawatts produced around the globe today.
[Source: Stephen Pincock, "Science Matters: The jury is still out on nuclear energy when it comes to the environment, but new studies in China could change all that", Financial Times (London, England), November 6, 2004, p. 13]
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