The approaching end of nuclear power cannot come soon enough. From the beginning it was and still is a threat to the life and health of everyone on the globe, and the remaining plants and the nuclear waste they generate will continue to be a threat even as nuclear power starts to die out. In Germany, they are debating on when to shut down all nuclear plants. There is still some interest in nuclear power in Asia. They haven't had their Three Mile or Chernobyl yet, but even they may not require catastrophe to learn that nuclear power is itself a catastrophe.
China now has six reactors under construction and plans to build four more.
But economics may deliver the death blow to China's ambitious nuclear plans. The prime minister of China, Zhu Rongji, recently told the National People's Congress that he intends to move ahead with overhauling its state industries. The chairman of China's State Economic and Trade Commission, according to a published report, has said they are in the process of closing excess textile mills and coal mines, and restructuring the petroleum, petrochemical and and metallurgical industries. Surely, China will reconsider its nuclear industry, which is doomed to failure. Unfortunately, the world did not wake up to the hazardous and uneconomic nature of nuclear power until multi-billions had been committed to its construction.