China’s Nuclear Safety Review Impact ‘Small,’ Official Says

China’s safety review of its atomic power plants will have little impact on expansion and achieving nuclear generation capacity of 70 to 80 gigawatts by 2020 is “still achievable,” an industry group official said.

Nuclear plants “under construction are still undergoing construction as planned. There’s no impact on those,” Xu Yuming, vice secretary general of the China Nuclear Energy Association, said in an interview before a conference in Beijing today. “There will probably be some delays in new projects waiting for approval but the impact will be small.”