Proposals to build plants inland, as China ends a moratorium on new generators imposed after the Fukushima disaster in March 2011, are particularly risky, the physicist He Zuoxiu said, because if there was an accident it could contaminate rivers that hundreds of millions of people rely on for water and taint groundwater supplies to vast swathes of important farmlands.

The context of "inland" here is near rivers and farmland that provide food and water for the population that live in dense urban areas nearer the coast.

Both could be true, just talking about different moratoriums, or one lifted then reimposed, both may have errors, etc.

It really needs a far better China watcher than myself to clarify.