With rapid industrialisation and an economy growing at 12 per cent per year, China is fast outstripping its energy resources. And although the rest of the world is turning its back on nuclear energy, China has decided that a massive investment in nuclear power stations is needed to maintain its impressive growth record. By 2010 China hopes to produce 20, 000 MW of electricity from nuclear power. It is the largest nuclear expansion programme planned by any country over the next thirty years.