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China is currently building almost 40 nuclear plants at the same time.

Yeah but that is over the next 10-15 years.

They are currently building half of all the nuclear plants under construction around the world.

You are right that China has structural advantages when it comes to building nuclear, and they are making use of them.

Its basically a drop in the bucket. If you look at five year plans the nuclear share is continually dropping.

By 2030 there is 110GW planned of nuclear and 2800GW of solar and wind.

Effectively nothing at the scale of their grid