[Allan_L (Allan)]

Seven new nuclear power plants in China and more elsewhere show how the industry is gaining ground.

AN official launch has just been staged at Fuqing, in the southern Chinese coastal province of Fujian, for a new nuclear power station.

It will have six reactors, be completed in 2014 and have generating capacity of 6000 megawatts.

To give you some idea of how big that is, the Snowy Mountains hydro stations have a combined capacity of 3800MW.

And Fuqing is just one of seven new power plants in China that have been given the green light.

The Dutch are about to clear the way for a new plant due for completion in 2018, the foundation plate has been laid for the Leningrad II nuclear plant in Russia, and Bulgaria -- once it can get the financing -- will get two reactors off the drawing board. It also looks like the South Africans are getting back on track to commission at least one nuclear power station.
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I may be out of date with technology in the area, but aren't they just trading one form of undesirable waste with another (worse) form.

And the push in Australia to go nuclear is gaining momentum I understand as a solution to the increasing CO2 levels and the alledged consequences.

Nuclear proliferation - IMHO the greatest threat to life on the planet?