China’s nuclear policy: 'Build, baby, build!'

By Kari Huus

Watching Japan’s nuclear drama unfold across the East China Sea, China is glued to the edge of its front-row seat.

There is a good reason for the rapt attention: In addition to fears that radiation from Japan could somehow reach its shores, China has more ongoing and planned nuclear construction than any other country — about half of the world’s total.
While it has joined governments in Europe and the United States in announcing a safety review of its nuclear power sector, the pressure to complete its nuclear projects – both those under way and on the drawing board — is intense.
And its record in keeping corruption and mismanagement at bay in construction projects is checkered, to say the least.

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