In China, 9 new nuclear reactors started construction in 2025, up from 6 in 2024. China's state council approved 10-11 reactors per year over the last 4 years.
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>>16885581Those 9 reactors will generate 10.8GW of electrical power once commissioned.A chart of a large historical nuclear build-out for comparison. The peak was 10.5GW in 1974.
Restarts of Three Mile Island (819MW) and Michigan Palisades (805MW) are both in progress.>>16885590Interesting that there happens to be a hole in 1979 as that's the year of the Three Mile Island incident and the anti-nuclear movie 'The China Syndrome'. Given the lead times on planning, construction, and starting operations, that's certainly a coincidence. Those lead times like do show up about a decade later as all of the plants that had been in the pipeline completed and no new ones were started.
When's commercial scale energy positive cold fusion?
>>16885581No, China is actually anti-nuclear energy. Of course any nation with great power ambitions must have a nuclear workforce but they realized long ago that cheap solar rollout will far eclipse anything nuclear can do. And there is no sign that fusion will be cheaper than fission either.Still cool they're working on it though.
>>16885581We are going to reach from 1b internet users to 5b 2034 before Moore's law with silicon ends and they start building up nodes on CPU/GPU. All that energy wasted on updating infrastructure.
Chernobyl 2: Wuhan Edition
