The newspaper quoted analysts as saying that such a platform could boost the efficiency of China's ongoing construction work on Spratley Islands in the South China Sea considerably.
In a recent interview with the Global Times, Liu Zhengguo, head of the general office of the China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC) which is responsible for designing and assembling the platforms, said that the CSIS is "pushing forward with the work."
"The development of nuclear power platforms is a burgeoning trend. The exact number of plants to be built [by the CSIC] depends on market demand. Judging by various factors … the demand is pretty strong," he said without elaborating.
Earlier this month, it was reported that China plans to construct at least 20 maritime nuclear power platforms "in the future."
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Looks like the Chinese got the jump on the rest of the world with that project.
ReplyDeleteAn ominous development.
ReplyDeleteThis is becoming more difficult to deal with every day.
Not a bad mobile nuclear dirty bomb, either.
ReplyDelete15-20, off the coast, sunk and left to contaminate thousands upon thousands of square miles of territory. For a very very long time.
And, everyone (including us) has such exemplary technology that nothing could go wrong, in addition to state-of-the-art security.
I'm positive the Chinese have never even given the dirty bomb idea two seconds of consideration.