China to push nuclear power

Press, 24 April 1986, Page 35

China to push nuclear power

NZPA Peking Sixty per cent of China’s nuclear industry is for military purposes but this will fall to 30 or 40 per cent in the next five years, according to a Chinese Ministry of Nuclear Industry official. The industry would focus on construction of nuclear power plants and export of nuclear fuel, said Liu Shulin, ministry adviser and president of the China Nuclear Energy Industry Corporation. Liu’s comments at China’s first high-techno-logy export fair in Shenzhen Special Economic Zone were reported in the official English-language “China Daily.’’ Chinese leader, Deng Xiaoping, has ordered the A

shift from military to civilian production to bolster modernisation. China can make available for export 1000 tons of uranium a year. The “China Daily” said Chinese nuclear experts were now in Peking mapping plans for power plant construction, including the 300-megawatt nuclear station at Qinshan, Zhejiang Province, expected to be completed by 1989. China will build the plant itself, importing some foreign technology. Plans to import two 1000-megawatt reactors for a Sunan plant in Jiangsu Province have been cancelled because of China’s lack of foreign exchange.