China Renews Atomic Ambition With 5 Reactors Planned in 2015
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China is expected to start building at least five nuclear reactors in 2015 while facing a further delay at a plant that had been slated to start this year.
The Sanmen project in the eastern province of Zhejiang is expected to come online at the beginning of 2016 after problems were found in the main pump during testing, said Wang Zhongtang, chief engineer of China’s State Nuclear Power Technology Corp. The Westinghouse Electric Co.-designed plant is the world’s first AP1000 reactor.