A Double First in China for Advanced Nuclear Reactors
Safer reactors designed in the U.S. and Europe make their power grid debuts in China
Call it the world’s slowest photo finish. After several decades of engineering, construction flaws and delays, and cost overruns—a troubled birth that cost their developers dearly—the most advanced commercial reactor designs from Europe and the United States just delivered their first megawatt-hours of electricity within one day of each other. But th…
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