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How China raced ahead of the US on nuclear power
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By 2030, China’s nuclear capacity is set to surpass that of the US, the first country to split atoms to make electricity.
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Brad Plumer and Harry Stevens
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NEW YORK – In 2013, construction began on the first two new US nuclear reactors in a generation. Atomic energy was back. Or was it?
Seven years late and US$17 billion (S$22 billion) over budget, the reactors became two of the costliest ever built. Once again, nuclear power seemed hopeless, at least in the United States.
