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Article: China: China plans commercial fast reactors.

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November 2, 2009
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China s massive drive to build 70 GWe of conventional light water reactors by 2020 will be augmented by an emerging effort to also build advanced fast sodium-cooled reactors (large graphic) that burn and produce nuclear fuel at the same time. The Wall Street Journal reported Oct 30 the Experimental Fast Reactor is being designed to have a power generating capacity of 800 MW and is due to come online in 2020.

The WSJ report indicated the fast reactor would be built at Sanming City in Fujian province. However, an Oct 15 report by World Nuclear News put the two Russian units at a coastal location though possibly still in the same province. ...

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