China has approved construction of eight reactors this year, including yesterday’s approval. China plans to build as many as eight nuclear power plants each year from 2016 to 2020 and invest 500 billion yuan ($77 billion) on next-generation nuclear reactors during the five years, according to a statement from state-owned Power Construction Corp. of China Ltd. earlier this month, citing a draft of China’s 13th five-year plan.
Among the four reactors approved, two at Guangxi’s Fangchenggang will use CGN’s own Hualong One third-generation technology, according to a CGN statement. That is the same model expected to be exported for the Bradwell project in the U.K., to be built under an agreement between CGN and Electricite de France SA for a 1 gigawatt plant.
Additional reactors are planned, including some of the world’s most advanced, to give more than a three-fold increase in nuclear capacity to at least 58 GWe by 2020-21, then some 150 GWe by 2030, and much more by 2050.
India Governments nuclear energy target for 2020
India’s government said 13,500 megawatts of nuclear power will be operating by 2020.
India currently has 5,300 megawatts of nuclear power.
Currently the top countries based on operable nuclear power generation are
United States 98990 MWe [798.6 TWh in 2014] France 63130 MWe [418.0 TWh ijn 2014] Japan * 40480 MWe [Most of the reactors are currently not operating, 0 TWh] China 26849 MWe [123.8 TWh in 2014] Russia 25264 MWe [169.1 TWh in 2014] South Korea 21677 MWe [149.2 TWh in 2014]
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