David Fickling, Columnist

China Needs a Nuclear Option

A shift from polluting coal will depend on atomic power as well as renewables.
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When the temperature drops to freezing in a country of almost 1.4 billion people, the power needed to keep the population warm soars.

That's one of the main reasons China's northern cities have spent much of the past month choking on smoggy, toxic air.