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Russia has said that it will help China surpass the United States in nuclear power

The chief of Russia's Rosatom nuclear state corporation, who spoke on state television on Wednesday following talks in Beijing, said that Russia would help China surpass the United States in terms of the world's largest producer of nuclear energy.

The United States has the largest nuclear reactor network in the world, with a total installed capacity of nearly 97 gigawatts.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, China is racing to construct dozens of nuclear reactors. It had 53.2 GW in operating capacity of nuclear power reactors as of April 20, 2024.

"China has ambitious plans to develop atomic energy." "The task is to surpass and catch up with the United States, which would mean reaching a power of more than one hundred gigawatts," Alexei Likhachev said on Russian state television.

Likhachev replied, "Of Course. We will assist. "We are already helping."

Likhachev stated that Russia has helped China build four nuclear reactors and is currently building four others. China also needs a lot of uranium for its ambitious plans.

He said that China would need to develop new closed nuclear fuel cycle units based on Russian technologies. (Reporting and Writing by Guy Faulconbridge, Editing by Andrew Osborn.)

(source: Reuters)