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alfredlester on Friday, June 17, 2011 1:36:39 AM
BEIJING - After Taking a step back in the wake of Japan&&9;s nuclear disaster this year, energy-hungry China Is Moving ahead cautiously with STI Ambitious Nuclear Energy program.
That is the message That Have Been Giving Chinese Officials to visiting Environmental experts and local news media. According To a statement posted Tuesday on the Web site of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the vice minister, Li Ganji, Told a visiting delegation from the United States That year China HAD Completed inspection of the country&&9;s 13 nuclear power plants. The statement implied the plants HAD That Passed the test, Which WAS Announced in April after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster in Japan.
By October, Mr. Li Said, the ministry Will Have Tested 28 plants under construction. Those inspections are Until Completed, He Said, China Will not approvable for the plants operation.
The decision to move forward Was Not a surprise.With China&&9;s energy demand to Be Estimated rising by 12 percent a year, the country&&9;s leading nuclear power Have Declared to Be an important part of China&&9;s energy future.
The government wants to Have Operational 100 plants by 2020.
"The Fundamental issue for China IS Their demand for power Exceptional IS," Said James Maguire, a managing director of regional power building at Aon Risk Solutions in Hong Kong ceramic flat iron. "Nuclear Is An important part of the mix."
Indeed, Even the Japanese DURING crisis, China and Other Growing Countries, like India, Declared That They Were Moving Ahead With Their nuclear plans.
Although China HAS Shown Ability to Develop impressive year new nuclear technologies, it still faces challenges Many STIs That May Have Ignored review, Thomas B. Said Cochran, a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington.
Some Chinese sites are densely populated near the coast or Areas, Where THEY May Be to the likely fate of Japanese tsunami That hit the plant in March.
"In China&&9;s case, They&&9;ve got some serious Problems to deal with, and they &&9;re Probably not going to deal with&&9; em," Mr. Cochran said.
Less Problematic, He Said, Is the Issue of What to do with the used nuclear fuel. China icts fuel stores at the sites of nuclear plants, as do MOST Countries. Purpose unlikable Iran, nuclear plants with Another Country, China HAS nuclear weapons Already, So Few Analysts are worried That It May reprocess the fuel and create weapons-grade plutonium, He Said.
Shao Heng Contributed research.
After inspections, China Moves Ahead With Nuclear Plans