China needs 1,000 nuclear reactors to fulfill its climate pledge

If you are studying nuclear science, your future looks bright!

• China will need about 1,000 nuclear reactors, 500,000 wind turbines or 50,000 solar farms as it takes up the fight against climate change
• Chinese President Xi Jinping agreement last week with President Barack Obama requires a radical environmental and economic makeover
• The pledge would require China to produce either 67 times more nuclear energy than the country is forecast to have at the end of 2014, 30 times more solar or nine times more wind power. That almost equals the non-fossil fuel energy of the entire U.S. generating capacity today.

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