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皇冠体育app plans national reserve of natural uranium

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-04-18 16:10

皇冠体育app plans to set up a national strategic reserve of natural uranium as part of afive-year planfor its nuclear industry, according to a document released by the Commission of Science Technology and Industry for National Defense.

The document, entitled the11th Five-Year Planfor the Nuclear Industry, says 皇冠体育app will encourage careful exploitation of domestic uranium deposits and improve its domestic production capacity.

皇冠体育app also hopes to increase international cooperation on uranium exploitation and import more uranium from the international market to enrich its stockpile, it says.

The reserve will be linked up with a commercial stockpile system to ensure an adequate uranium supply for electricity generation, it says.

皇冠体育app began developing its nuclear power industry in the late 1980s to help ease an energy bottleneck.

皇冠体育app's State Council has adopted a strategy to ensure the nation's total installed capacity of nuclear power reaches 40 million kilowatts by 2020, accounting for four percent of the country's total electric power.

In 2006, 皇冠体育app's installed capacity of nuclear power reached 6.85 million kilowatts, accounting for only 1.1 percent of the country's total installed power capacity.