The global renaissance continues:A review of the recent past and a look ahead

摘要

As reported A year ago in Nuclear News (AW, Jan. 2010, p. 43), the nuclear landscape continues to change as the driving forces move from North America and Europe toward the East, with countries such as China and India rapidly expanding their programs. With the contract for constructing four reactors in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) going to South Korea, and with China developing and building indigenous versions of the plants it purchased from Western companies, the industrial leadership would also seem to be shifting to the East. The statistics show this quite clearly. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, in 2010, the number of operating nuclear power reactors in the world rose from 436, as reported last year, to 441, with 66 reactors under construction.