Soon after the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear meltdown in March 2011, Germany announced it would decommission all its nuclear plants. Switzerland and Italy rejected proposals to build more reactors. Japan shut down its reactors and has yet to restart them. China, on the other hand, plowed ahead with existing projects, even though it suspended new approvals so it could perform more safety checks.

Last November, the government lifted the moratorium and approved four projects. The number of reactors being built is now 29—the most of any country, and 40 percent of the world’s total. “China is now one of the most important countries, if not the most important country, in the global nuclear industry,” says Antony Froggatt, a senior research fellow at Chatham House, a British think tank.

I have been researching Nuclear Power plants that use Graphite in there reactors. There is not that many in the world & the ones that are being built are 5-6 years off of going online. The research I have found they are having problem with radioactive graphite dust & cracks that have pebbles imbeding themselves in creating a hazard. Maybe somebody knows abit more about the amount of reactors worldwide that does use the pebble bed reactor. I know in Canada we do not have any & there are no immediate plans to build any.

This could be one of the reasons why Zenyatta has not agressively seeked out nuclear grade is the markets are limited at this point the synthetic market has most of it tied up. It takes 2 years to run graphite in a reactor & test to prove it is nuclear grade.

If anybody has more to add I would be very interested.

GLTA

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