That's incredibly impressive. Since it takes approximately 6 years to build a reactor in China that amounts to about 4 reactors per year.

And total caoacity of zhose pales in comparison to wind, solar coal being built at the same time. Funny, the numbers are all there, all you have to do is comparing them to realize nuclear is far from growing.

And it keeps getting more expensive.

People are calling for small, modular and repeatable nuclear reactors that could theoretically get cheaper with scale.

You know what is is actually small, modular and repeatable and getting cheaper with scale? Solar panels and wind turbines.

It’s not nothing though. For the 8 nuclear plants the combined output will be 7GWe. That can power 50 million+ homes. That’s like a fifth of the population.

Russia has 4 domestically under construction and about 17 actively under construction internationally. They are planning something like 29 more by 2050, though the jury is out on whether those will actually ever get completed.

But it is very nice that RosAtom seems to be one of the most competently run Russian Gov agencies.

Are they building or are they "building" (as in, talking and planning and not actually building.)

India is famous for talking about nuclear. Building it, not as much. India gets 2x as much energy from PV as it does from nuclear, and the PV is growing rapidly.

Under construction

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PHWR_under_Construct...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_India?wprov=s...