80b yuan needed for upgrading nuke safety
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October 18, 2012, Thursday
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CHINA will have to spend around 80 billion yuan (US$12.7 billion) by 2015 to upgrade the security of its nuclear facilities and radioactive contamination control to international standards, according to a report issued by the Ministry of Environmental Protection.
China, with an ambitious plan to build as many as 100 reactors in the next two decades, imposed a ban on approving new nuclear power plants after Japan's nuclear crisis in March 2011 and ordered nationwide safety checks on its 41 plants.
The report, which laid out a road map for China's nuclear safety to reach international standards by 2020, suggested the government was moving closer to restarting the approval process for reactor expansion.
It evaluated safety in China's nuclear-power industry and recommended phasing out older reactors sooner, sharing and improving access to information, enhancing the research and development of nuclear safety and improving radioactive waste handling.
"The current safety situation isn't optimistic," the report said. "China has multiple types of nuclear reactors, multiple technologies and multiple standards of safety, which makes them hard to manage," it said, adding that the operation and construction of nuclear reactors must improve.
China, with installed nuclear capacity of 12.57 gigawatts, will likely scale down its 2020 capacity target to 60-70 gigawatts compared with earlier expectations of around 80 GW.
China, with an ambitious plan to build as many as 100 reactors in the next two decades, imposed a ban on approving new nuclear power plants after Japan's nuclear crisis in March 2011 and ordered nationwide safety checks on its 41 plants.
The report, which laid out a road map for China's nuclear safety to reach international standards by 2020, suggested the government was moving closer to restarting the approval process for reactor expansion.
It evaluated safety in China's nuclear-power industry and recommended phasing out older reactors sooner, sharing and improving access to information, enhancing the research and development of nuclear safety and improving radioactive waste handling.
"The current safety situation isn't optimistic," the report said. "China has multiple types of nuclear reactors, multiple technologies and multiple standards of safety, which makes them hard to manage," it said, adding that the operation and construction of nuclear reactors must improve.
China, with installed nuclear capacity of 12.57 gigawatts, will likely scale down its 2020 capacity target to 60-70 gigawatts compared with earlier expectations of around 80 GW.
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