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Originally Posted by ernie
Indeed. They have about 26 operating at this time with another 24 under construction. 50+ more are in planning stages.
They are also putting the final touches on there own reactor designs to bring to the world (based on the Westinghouse AP 1000 I believe). And when I say bring to the world what they will be offering is to provide the financing for the build for the area governments. That initial $6 B outlay is quite prohibitive when it comes to building a NPP. To do so means you are not looking for any sort of return for 30+ years. With China financing the reactors they become a heck of a lot more attractive for pretty much every country in the world. Especially the developing nations.
China is also building some Gen IV test reactors. Basically the only country that is truly and actively doing so.
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Nuclear is a fossil fuel, and it's certainly not clean. China has no oil, they also build nuclear weapons, so they need to build nuclear plants. Lets not spin this into a good thing. When you compare Canada to China on a world scale we are minor polluters.
The idea of China and SA as third world/developing is absurd, every country has to pull their wait to make this fair, I will not support a government that trashes Canada's economy at the expense of putting China even further ahead of us economically.