China’s State Council has approved the construction of 10 new nuclear reactors, as reported by Bloomberg.
While it was recently revealed that the world’s largest energy consumer plans to keep building coal-fired power plants through to 2027, it is also ramping up its renewables development.
In July 2024, the Global Energy Monitor found that China was building almost twice as much wind and solar energy capacity as every other country in the world combined, with 180GW of utility-scale solar and 159GW of wind power already under construction.
Bloomberg has now reported that China is also ramping up nuclear power with the approval of at least 10 new nuclear reactors, the fourth consecutive year that number has been endorsed.
With 30 nuclear reactors currently under construction, nearly half the global total, China is expected to overtake the US as the world’s largest producer of nuclear energy by 2030.
A recent study published in March 2025 found that nuclear reactors generated 9.15% of the...