China plans to open 1st ‘meltdown-free’ nuclear power plant by 2017
Published time: 12 Feb, 2016 11:57
China says it is planning to bring a safe nuclear power plant that will not suffer from meltdowns online in November 2017. It would be the world’s first high-temperature, gas-cooled pebble-bed nuclear plant built on an industrial scale.
The Chinese are using a design developed in Germany, though the nuclear reactor which is being built in Shandong will be the first commercial-scale atomic power plant of its kind to be constructed.
“This technology is going to be on the world market within the next five years,” said Zhang Zuoyi, director of the Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology,
Technology Review reported.
“We are developing these reactors to belong to the world.”
https://www.rt.com/news/332254-china-meltdown-free-reactor/