China official warns on "too fast" nuclear plans

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China official warns on "too fast" nuclear plans
Sun Sep 27, 2009 12:12pm EDT
By Eadie Chen and Lucy Hornby

QINGDAO, China (Reuters) - China may have to put the brakes on the construction of nuclear power plants to ensure the plants are safe, the country's top energy planning official told reporters on Sunday.

Zhang Guobao, head of the National Energy Administration, warned of signs of "improper" and "too fast" development of nuclear power in some regions.

China had previously set a goal of 40 gigawatts of nuclear power capacity by 2020, which would entail building about two reactors a year.

Some government officials have suggested aiming for 60 to 70 GW, or 5 percent of total generating capacity. The expanded goal is driven in part by China's $585 billion stimulus plan, put in place late last year to offset a collapse in export markets.

"We'd rather move slower and achieve less than incur potential safety concerns in terms of nuclear energy," Zhang told reporters on the sidelines of the Sino-U.S. Energy Summit.

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[NNadir]

1. Don't be ridiculous. Nuclear power, as Amory Lovins pointed out in 1980, is dead.

We know that because we can prove definitively, using the best kind of math there is, fundie math, that http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/international/iealf/table27.xls"> 2660.26 < 684.38.

Quoth Amory back in 1980, when that 684.38 figure (which is smaller than 2660.26) was generated:

In fact, the global nuclear power enterprise is rapidly disappearing. De facto moratoria on reactor ordering exist today in the United States, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, Ireland, and probably the United Kingdom, Belgium, Switzerland, Japan and Canada. Nuclear power has been indefinitely deferred or abandoned in Austria, Denmark, Norway, Iran, China, Australia and New Zealand.

Lovins, Asshole; Lovins, Hunter funny hat, and Ross, Leper, Foreign Affairs, "Nuclear Power and Nuclear Bombs," Foreign Affairs, Summer 1980, page 1139.

As Lovins correctly pointed out, if nuclear power hadn't ended in 1980 from the "discipline of the marketplace" to which he, a regular Milton Friedman, alluded, there would have been lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of nuclear wars, killing more people than were killed in the dangerous fossil fuel war - which coincidently started in, um, 1980, between Iraq and Iran, the small war in Iraq that killed only a million people.

Very clearly Amory must lecture all those executives from Conoco, Royal Dutch Shell, etc when he sees them to pick up his check for um, "consulting" on why wars are, um, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad!!!!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War">"Only" one million dead.

Still, I wonder why, since nuclear power is dead, why so many anti-nuke fundies, including Lovins need to rail and rail and rail and rail and rail against nuclear power, year after year after year after year after year after year, while telling us at the same time, year after year after year after year after year after year how solar energy is just about to become competitive, proving once and for all that http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/table5_3.html">10.05 = 35.61.

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