China will become the world's largest nuclear energy producer by 2035
Source: China Nuclear Power Information Network Date: 2015-04-30
Unlike the downward trend in developed countries, nuclear energy is expected to grow strongly in China. If China successfully expands its nuclear energy production capacity, the unit cost of nuclear energy will drop significantly, and China will build more installed and nuclear power plants in the next 20 years.
At the China Press Conference of "BP 2035 World Energy Outlook" held in Beijing on April 28, Spencer Dale, chief economist of BP Group, made the above judgment on China's nuclear energy development in the next 20 years.
According to the BP 2035 World Energy Outlook report, China is expected to promote an average annual growth rate of global nuclear power of 11%, and by 2035, global installed nuclear energy can exceed 1 trillion trillion hours. At that time, China will surpass the United States to become the world's largest nuclear energy producer, and its proportion in the world's total nuclear energy production will rise from the current 4% to 30% by 2035. According to the report, this is equivalent to adding a new reactor of one trillion trillion hours every three months over the next 20 years.
At the press conference, Dai Sipan said that in the past, some of the major nuclear power users in the United States or Europe showed a downward trend in nuclear energy production. For example, 40% of the nuclear power plants in the United States are declining, and they will not see more and more Nuclear power plants are built in the United States or Europe.
"But on the contrary, nuclear energy may have very strong growth in China." Dai Sipan said, so from a global perspective, nuclear power will achieve a basic balance in the future: decline in traditional markets, but strong growth in China.
The BP 2035 World Energy Outlook report states that nuclear power capacity in Europe and North America has declined due to the gradual retirement of old nuclear power plants, coupled with economic difficulties and the obstruction of nuclear politics. In addition, although Japan plans to gradually restart the reactor from 2015, it is not expected to recover to the level of nuclear power before the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident by 2035.