China Revives Nuclear Power to Shed Smog Masks: Chart
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China approved the construction of new nuclear reactors for the first time since Japan’s Fukushima disaster in 2011 as the world’s biggest polluter seeks to drive protective masks out of fashion.
THE CHART OF THE DAY compares China’s total electricity output with amounts generated from thermal coal, hydroelectric power and atomic reactors. The world’s largest energy consumer derived 77 percent of its electricity from coal and gas-fired utilities last year, compared with 17 percent provided by hydropower and 2.4 percent by nuclear, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics compiled by Bloomberg.