Abstract
China is planning to increase its nuclear generation capacity by building two or three nuclear power plants every year until at least 2020, as one step to meet its rapidly rising energy demands and mitigate climate change threats. Will China be able to expand its nuclear power generation capacity in sufficient quantities and with sufficient speed to beat the urgent twin challenges it faces — energy security and climate change? This book seeks to understand the constellation of political forces in China that has shaped its nuclear energy development.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Notes
Jiang Lin, Nan Zhou, Mark D. Levine and Favid Fridley. 2006. ‘Achieving China’s Target for Energy Intensity Reduction in 2010: An Exploration of Recent Trends and Possible Future Scenarios’, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, LBNL-61800, December.
Joanna Ingram Lewis, ‘From Technology Transfer to Local Manufacturing: China’s emergence in the global wind power industry’, PhD thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 2005.
Hans-Holger Rogner, ‘Nuclear Power Revival: Short-Term Anomaly or Long-Term Trend’? World Nuclear Association Annual Symposium, 7–9 September 2005, London, p. 4.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 2010 Xu Yi-chong
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Yi-chong, X. (2010). Introduction. In: The Politics of Nuclear Energy in China. Energy, Climate and the Environment Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230290532_1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230290532_1
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-1-349-31034-0
Online ISBN: 978-0-230-29053-2
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies CollectionPolitical Science and International Studies (R0)