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Six new nuclear reactors per year planned in China
On May 16, the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Energy Administration and the Ministry of Environment Protection disclosed a program, saying that they will press forward with the construction of safe and efficient nuclear power plants, which they said are one of the country's important energy sources.
Chinese nuclear power plants, both those operational and those under construction, will have a combined power capacity of 58,000 megawatts (MW) by 2015, which will further appreciate to 88,000 MW by 2020.
China will start six new reactors every year from 2015 to 2020. China will put 640 billion yuan (US$103.6 billion) into the nuclear power industry before 2020, with 480 billion yuan (US$77.7 billion) spent on building facilities, including 70 billion yuan (US$11.3 billion) in 2014, according to the China Nuclear Energy Association.
Currently, China has 21 reactors in operation, in addition to 28 units under construction
http://nextbigfuture.com/2014/06/china-and-russia-plan-nuclear-energy.html
The article also discusses Russia's nuclear growth - with $100Billion backlog of orders... and rapid internal growth to as much as 80% of electricity generation by the end of the century.
