China pauses its plans to build the most new nuclear reactors in the world - but will not halt them.
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Editor's Note: Some of the reporting for this feature took place as a result of a Jefferson Fellowship from the East–West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.
This article was first published by Scientific American on 28 March 2011.
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Biello, D. China forges ahead with nuclear energy. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.194
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