• kristina [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    also theyre looking to get 2-3x the number of reactors, theyre gonna dwarf the rest of the world in reactor output, and the new nuclear sites are gonna be shiny latest gen shit with all the safety bells and whistles :posadist-nuke:

    https://world-nuclear-news.org/BlankSiteASPX/media/WNNImported/mainimagelibrary/general%20and%20abstract/IEA-slide.jpg?ext=.jpg (note: this slide is a conservative estimate, some think china will hit 200gw by 2030-2035). and then they intend to get it going even higher from there. their current plan is around ~1400 GW by 2100 on top of what is already put in, which would be outputting about half the USA's current output in nuclear only.

    china has enough clean energy to power the US for half the year. but it needs to get higher, obviously.