China keeps pushing nuclear power despite missesBloombergChina is maintaining the pressure on its nuclear power giants to deliver more reactors with an ambitious new target, despite a string of misses in recent years. The government last week set a goal of 110 gigawatts of nuclear capacity by 2030 in its latest five-year plan draft, a 76 percent jump from the end of last year. The new objective comes after the country fell short of reaching 58 gigawatts by 2020 and 70 gigawatts by last year. Wind and solar are helping the country meet growing power needs without lifting emissions, but their intermittent delivery is increasingly straining the grid. Still, the industry’s execution has been hobbled somewhat over the past decade by disruptions following the 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant disaster in Japan and snags in the global supply chain after the COVID-19 pandemic.
