Beijing aims to have second-largest installed nuke capacity in the world

Beijing: China will more than triple the number of stations monitoring atmospheric radiation levels nationwide by 2020 as part of a nuclear energy security plan, a senior official from China’s nuclear energy security authority said.

“We plan to build another 135 auto-monitoring stations this year in a bid to gradually improve the network and strengthen the monitoring capacity in nuclear energy security,” said Guo Chengzhan, head of nuclear and radiation security management at the Environ­mental Protection Ministry.