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If you had $50 billion to spend on new nuclear you'd probably be better off approaching China or India

See my recent comment here where you'll find 50 power reactors currently under construction in 15 countries.

Though I'll grant whether any of it turns out to be money wisely invested, either financially or environmentally, is a different matter.



I think a 'made-in-china reactor' will be too hard to sell to the general public in US/EU


That would continue a trend of willfull ignorance and stupidity that is not out of character.

Firstly, the evidence is that the Chinese are excellent at manufacturing and will likely be churning out high quality nuclear reactors.

Secondly, high quality energy production is a bad topic for nationalism. The West decided not to pursue nuclear decades ago. But it remains the most technically excellent form of energy production and we should be grateful that there are still nations in the world pushing technology and engineering forward. It isn't like there are a lot of choices; the obvious options the world has right now are either Chinese nuclear or Chinese solar.


I actually meant investing the 50 billion in China or India.




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