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...adopt international nuclear-safety standards have discouraged foreign investors from helping China build commercial reactors. Only two nuclear plants are in operation, and one of those was built to supply electricity mainly to Hong Kong at rates five times as high as what can be charged in China. Jiang Xinxiong, president of the China Nuclear Industry Corp., predicts that 20 more atom plants will be on line by 2020, but even so, nuclear power would meet less than 10% of China's energy needs...