“In the future, as the South China Sea electricity and power system is strengthened, China will speed up the commercial development of the South China Sea region,” it added. But Zhu added that they would be deployed to oilfields in the Bohai Sea off China’s northeast coast, not in the South China Sea. BEIJING: China may build mobile nuclear power plants in the South China Sea, state media reported, days after an international tribunal dismissed Beijing’s vast claims in the strategically vital waters. Beijing included the development of two marine nuclear power plants, to be built by CNNC and the China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN) respectively, in its five-year plan for 2016-2020, both companies announced this year, but did not specify where the marine facilities would be constructed. The state-backed website The Paper on Friday quoted China Shipbuilding Industry Corpo­ration (CSIC) engineer Zhu Hanchao as saying that 20 marine nuclear platforms were in development.

Source: The Star July 15, 2016 21:45 UTC