China has brought its 14th nuclear power reactor into commercial operations, even as approval of new projects remain suspended following Japan's nuclear crisis in March.
China has brought its 14th nuclear power reactor into commercial
operations, even as approval of new projects remain suspended following Japan's
nuclear crisis in March.
The one-gigawatt reactor is part of the Ling'ao nuclear plant's second-phase
project in southern
Guangdong
province, operator China Guangdong Nuclear Power Corp. said Monday.
This brings
China
's
nuclear power capacity to around 11.8 gigawatts, according to Dow Jones
Newswires calculations.
This figure is set to grow to 40 gigawatts by 2015, reducing the share of
fossil fuel power generation in order to cut carbon and pollution output,
China
's
former energy chief Zhang Guobao said last month.
All 27 reactors under construction in
China
will
proceed as planned in spite of safety concerns in the wake of
Japan
's
crisis, with one more reactor coming online this year, Zhang said.
"Developing nuclear power is an inevitable choice for balancing
China
's
electricity supply. What we need to do is make it safer," he said.
The government is unlikely to approve new nuclear projects over the next year
until new safety standards are in place, according to local media.
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