China Shows How to Build Nuclear Reactors Fast and Cheap This is...

China Shows How to Build Nuclear Reactors Fast and Cheap

This is 2015 but brought up an issue I had not looked at. The building of new plant has several constraints; "heavy components in the supply chain where the real global bottleneck is" grabbed my attention in this article
From just one Forge in the world before 2007 to "today (2015) very heavy forges operate in China, Japan, France and Russia. New forges are expected soon in Korea, the Czech Republic, India and the UK.

Whats is also interesting development in China's "Westinghouse's readiness to transfer the technology for its AP1000 to China was a major factor in its selection" Link (updated 2016)


While speculators on the Price of Uranium and the recovery of the price has been a long term topic the ability to build new plant has actually expanded significantly and of particular interest to myself was the ongoing expansion post.