alt Hacker NewsAnd yet China is building new nuclear plants just as fast as it's building solar and wind. It's almost as if the "grinding halt" was political in nature.
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ViewTrick1002 • last Friday at 7:42 AM
Vastly slower. China is on one hand building enough renewables to soak up the entire grid expansion and displace fossil fuels.
On the other hand their nuclear share is declining. It peaked at 4.7% in 2021 and is today down to 4.3%. Entirely irrelevant.
For each plan they put out they lower their nuclear targets and push them further into the future.
Going from a French like buildout 10-15 years ago to having it as a token investment today.
Source needed, a quick search if mine showed very different numbers:
"China aims to reach 110 gigawatts (GWe) of nuclear capacity by 2030."
"China installed over 430 GW of renewables in 2025"
In other words china installed last year alone 5x the energy capacity in solar and wind, what the are planning to have in 2030
https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profil...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_China