Public trust crisis threatens China's nuclear power ambitions


  • World
  • Friday, 19 Jul 2013

HONG KONG (Reuters) - As China pushes an aggressive expansion of nuclear power it is running into a major stumbling block - a breakdown of trust, post-Fukushima, in official assurances of public safety.

A plan to build a $6 billion uranium processing plant in the southern province of Guangdong was cancelled this week after about a thousand people took to the streets demanding the project was scrapped over public health and environmental fears.

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