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Re:The first Gen III+ Nuclear plant begins fuel loading by tuatoru on Saturday October 15, 2022 @06:50AM (#33213615)
Well, on the one hand, Chinese manufacturers (90% of the market) have announced expansions for 2022-2025 of 645 GWe annual production, over and above 2021's total annual manufacturing capacity of 220 GWe.

On the other hand, likely all of that will be needed to meet Xi's 2030 target for PV power generation in China. (12,000 GWe capacity, up from 800 now? Something like that.)

So near exponential but not much slack for others to use, probably.

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Re:The first Gen III+ Nuclear plant begins fuel loading by Turing_Machine on Saturday October 15, 2022 @09:13AM (#33214482)
I'm not quite sure I believe anything the Chinese government says.

China hasn't stopped building nukes, you'll notice.

Edit:

See: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-11-02/china-cli...

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Re:The first Gen III+ Nuclear plant begins fuel loading by Dylan16807 on Saturday October 15, 2022 @06:09PM (#33219123)
I think they're doing a much better job of controlling costs on nuclear plant construction, so that wouldn't invalidate the claim about what you can do with 20 billion dollars.
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