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Sep 30, 2016 05:40 PM

Spent-Fuel Issues Cloud China's Nuclear Push

A containment structure dome is hoisted into place for one of  two reactors at the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in Guangdong province during its construction phase in 2012. Photo: IC
A containment structure dome is hoisted into place for one of two reactors at the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in Guangdong province during its construction phase in 2012. Photo: IC

(Beijing) — A Chinese nuclear power plant construction program has been on a fast track ever since the government's four-year moratorium on building such facilities was lifted this year.

Now, five years after Japan's 2011 Fukushima disaster led to the moratorium, China is fully engaged in an expansion that's scheduled to add 24 new reactor units to the nation's existing 32.

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