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Construction on the first phase of a nuclear power plant started in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Friday. The project in Guangpo Township, Fangchengang City, will have six one-million-kilowatt generators once complete.

Construction of two more nuclear power generators has started at a nuclear power station in China's northeast. Construction of the two generators at Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Station began Wednesday with an investment of 25 billion yuan (3.7 billion U. S. dollars) in Dalian City, Liaoning Province.

Construction on the first phase of a nuclear power plant in souther China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region began yesterday. The project in Guangpo Township, Fangchengang City, will have six 1-million-kilowatt generators. It will be the first such facility in an ethnic minority area.

Two companies leading the U.S. nuclear power revival may curb spending on the next generation of reactors due to delays in federal loan support, officials said.

The demand for emission-free nuclear electricity in China is growing as quickly as its megacities and middle-class . Some analysts estimate that China will need to build as many as 300 new nuclear power plants by 2050 -- a nuclear building boom so ambitious that it threatens to tax the world's supply of uranium to its limits . China currently has 17 nuclear reactors under construction or in the ...

More than half a century ago, the first commercial nuclear power reactors went critical in the United Kingdom and the United States. In the decades since, technology has brought us 3-billion-transistor chips, manned spaceflight, and violin-playing robots.

The United States and India on Friday formally signed an agreement on reprocessing spent nuclear fuel that U.S. officials hope will allow American firms a share of India's $150 billion nuclear energy market.

Nuclear power is not the answer to global warming

US, India formally sign nuclear reprocessing pactUS, India formally sign nuclear reprocessing pact

The so-called nuclear renaissance that was supposed to boost U.S. capacity to generate emissions- free power may stall as developers await decisions from the Obama administration on federal aid.