BEIJING -- Chinese President Xi Jinping's government is poised to greatly expand the country's nuclear power generation, with plans to build six to eight new reactors a year over the next five years.

China is rapidly building nuclear reactors, such as this one under construction at the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in Taishan, Guangdong Province.
BEIJING -- Chinese President Xi Jinping's government is poised to greatly expand the country's nuclear power generation, with plans to build six to eight new reactors a year over the next five years.