The executive meeting of the Ministry of Environmental Protection recently discussed and approved in principle the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan for Nuclear Safety and Radioactive Pollution Prevention and Control and Vision 2020 (Draft for Review)" (referred to as "Nuclear Safety Plan"). The Nuclear Safety Plan will be submitted to the State Council for approval after further revisions.

 

The "Nuclear Safety Plan" puts forward the guiding ideology and overall goals of the 12th Five-Year Plan for nuclear safety and radioactive pollution prevention and the long-term goals for 2020, and emphasizes the need to strengthen supervision to further improve the safety level of nuclear facilities and nuclear technology utilization, and significantly reduce Radiation environmental safety risks, guarantee nuclear safety, environmental safety and public health, and promote the safe, healthy and sustainable development of nuclear energy and nuclear technology utilization.

 

The "Nuclear Safety Plan" puts forward specific tasks and guarantees in terms of nuclear power, research reactors, fuel cycle, nuclear technology utilization, nuclear safety equipment, uranium mining and metallurgy, early nuclear facility decommissioning management, as well as scientific and technological progress, emergency response, and regulatory capacity building. Measures.

 

Xie Zhenhua, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, recently stated that China’s determination to develop nuclear power will not change. China will further improve its nuclear power development plan to ensure that it continues to develop nuclear power under safe conditions. Zhang Guobao, former director of the National Energy Administration, recently stated that after March next year, nuclear power may be on the track of recovery and development, and China will be the world's largest nuclear power market in the future.

 

According to industry analysts, the safety inspections for nuclear power projects under construction and those already under construction have been completed, and the nuclear safety plan has been approved in principle by the Ministry of Environmental Protection. This means that China’s reopening of nuclear power project approvals is expected to accelerate. The “Nuclear Power The Mid-to-Long Term Development Plan may be released in the near future.