Yun Zhou

Zhou is a research fellow at the Project on Managing the Atom and International Security Program at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She is also a research scholar at the Center of International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland. Her current research interests include the international security and safety implications of a global nuclear expansion scenario and alternative nuclear technologies, such as small reactor designs for developing countries.

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Articles by Yun Zhou

Opinion
28 June 2012
Nuclear Energy

China responds to Fukushima

Yun Zhou

Before the Fukushima nuclear disaster, China had a relatively small fleet of 14 nuclear reactor units with a relatively small capacity -- less than 12 gigawatts of electricity -- but the country had big nuclear plans. It led the world in new reactor construction, with 27 units under way, five units approved and awaiting construction, and another 16 units scheduled. If all current construction went forward as planned, the country would be ensured of reaching its original target of 40 gigawatts of nuclear-generated electric capacity by 2020.