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With China Rapidly Scaling Up Nuclear Energy, US Faces ‘A Sputnik Moment’

America has nearly twice as many reactors and at least five times more data centers, an advantage the Chinese Communist Party aims to erase by 2030.
With China Rapidly Scaling Up Nuclear Energy, US Faces ‘A Sputnik Moment’
Approximately half of the planet’s data centers are in the United States. Tomas Ragina/Shutterstock
John Haughey
John Haughey
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The United States has nearly twice as many nuclear reactors and at least five times the number of artificial intelligence-generating data centers that China now has.

But while only two new nuclear power plants have been built in the United States since the turn of the century, China has built nearly 40 and, as China Atomic Energy Authority Vice Chair Wang Yiren told the China Nuclear Energy Association in May, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) “aims to overtake the United States in installed nuclear capacity by 2030.”

John Haughey
John Haughey
Reporter
John Haughey is an award-winning Epoch Times reporter who covers U.S. elections, U.S. Congress, energy, defense, and infrastructure. Mr. Haughey has more than 45 years of media experience. You can reach John via email at [email protected]
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