ENERGY - China’s Nuclear Ambitions: Going Big at Home and Abroad

Three years ago, Beijing residents started hoarding iodine salt. Stores sold out of the commodity within days, and those with extra supplies jacked up prices to take advantage of the frantic demand. China had not developed a sudden taste for salty foods. Instead, a frightened populace was trying to protect itself against any radiation blown west from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant, the site of the largest nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl. Ex ...

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