Posted by timothy on Monday April 20, @02:09AM
from the plenty-safe-bye-now-call-later dept.
An anonymous reader writes"The construction of first next-generation Westinghouse nuclear power reactor breaks ground in Sanmen, China. The reactor, expected to generate 12.7 Megawatts by 2013, costs 40 billion Yuan (~US$6 billion; that's a lot of iPods.) According to Westinghouse, 'The AP1000 is the safest and most economical nuclear power plant available in the worldwide commercial marketplace, and is the only Generation III+ reactor to receive Design Certification from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).' However, Chinese netizens suspect China is being used as a white rat to test unproven nuclear technologies (comments in Chinese)."
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