Cheaper and cleaner nuclear plants could finally become reality—but not in the United States, where the technology was invented more than 50 years ago. Over the next two decades China hopes to build the world’s largest nuclear power industry.
Plans include as many as 30 new conventional nuclear plants (in
addition to the 34 reactors operating today) as well as a variety of
next-generation reactors, including thorium molten-salt reactors,
high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (which, like molten-salt reactors,
are both highly efficient and inherently safe), and sodium-cooled fast
reactors (which can consume spent fuel from conventional reactors to
make electricity).
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