China, India Add Nuclear Units After Quake, Bernstein Says
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China and India, the world’s fastest-growing major economies, may boost their share of global nuclear power sevenfold by 2030 to meet electricity demand and emissions goals, according to Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.
The planned increase in atomic power in the Asian nations to 30 percent of the world’s total from the current 4 percent comes as radiation leaks from the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant following Japan’s record March 11 earthquake dents confidence in nuclear power.