China on Track to Supplant US as Top Nuclear Energy Purveyor

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“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.” Richard Feynman

Even if Green Energy is green (I doubt Ethanol, etc... ) the economics (all costs involved) of wind and solar are weak at best. The results are disappointing but normally if something is not working politicians double down. Europe that has a bet on alternative Energy has energy costs much greater that US , China etc.. . Europe is behind those other superpowers recently that bet is part of the reason.

The Economy is energy transformation. Expensive energy, weak economy.

Physics matters. It was not a random or arbitrary fluctuation, much less political favor or the power of vested interest, that led coal to dominate British energy supply as early as 1700, eroding the status of a deeply resistant landed aristocracy and gentry. It was not thanks to politicians that in the following centuries coal, oil, and gas established an overwhelming position in global energy supply. On the contrary, it was the intrinsic physical properties of those fuels that led to their preferment, properties which can be summed up in a single term: Fossil fuels are of low entropy.

John Constable

China on Track to Supplant US as Top Nuclear Energy Purveyor

By John Xie

January 14, 2021 04:24 PM

Experts say China is on a course to displace the United States as the global leader in the production and sale of nuclear power generation, providing yet another avenue for Beijing's drive to become the world's leading economic and diplomatic power.

A recent study published in Strategic Studies Quarterly, a journal sponsored by the U.S. Air Force, found that since 2000, 96 nuclear reactors have been connected to the grid in 13 countries. Of these, 45 were constructed in China and 12 in Russia.

The paper also pointed out that of the 54 reactors under construction in countries around the world, 20 are related to China or Russia, and 13 are designed by China.