China rapid urbanization is not only gulping up cement, but also water and energy. On Friday, China President Xi Jinping told a government meeting that development of nuclear energy should be accelerated. By adopting top international standards and ensuring safety, China should lose no time in constructing nuclear power projects in eastern coastal regions, he said, as the state-run Xinhua newswire reported. At the end of 2013, China 17 operational nuclear power plants were generating about 2 percent of the country total energy, according to Xinhua. But Ye Qizhen, an expert in nuclear energy at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, told the newswire that China should aim to get 10 percent of total energy from nuclear power soon.
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