CHINA TO BUILD 30 NEW NUCLEAR REACTORS BY 2020 - Iran haven't built one yet, world wants to bomb them

While the announcement of Iran's nuclear enrichment programme is depressing, it's hardly surprising for a country that has plenty of nuclear warheads pointing straight at it, all of them owned by the very people that illegally invaded Iraq.
At present, they don't have the capability to power a nuclear toothbrush.
If 9/11 had a lesson, it was surely that the castles we build in modern empires can be washed away like sand in a wave by the power and passion of faith, inequality and murder.
As my uncle Jim used to say, the bigger they are, the harder they fall. But he was only 5ft4", so he said that a lot. He didn't mind a fight.
So it seems odd to me, in this war against terrorism, that the world both East and West seems hell bent on offering them so many more sitting ducks.
Nuclear power stations are surely the suicide bomber's nirvana, ensuring not only the destruction of himself, but half the continent he's on too. I've seen 24, I know the way these people think. But it's pretty obvious even if you haven't.
Not that it may need any terrorism (or even a war on it) to set one off.
These things are shaky enough as it is.
If I was going to have a nuclear reactor to power E.R.'s meagre energy requirements, then I'd have the Japanese build it.
Cutting edge technology, computerised efficiency, dilligent and skilled manufacture, solid build, and a nuclear history that means they surely wouldn't underestimate what they were fucking around with.
Yesterday, a brand spanking new 2006-just-built-state-of-the-art Japanese nuclear reactor leaked 30 litres of plutonium enriched water and had to be shut down.
Great.
Meanwhile, those not-quite-so-known-for-their-quality-manufacturing Chinese are going to build two reactors a year for the next 14 years. This is sure to send the world prices for Plutonium through the roof, meaning other nuclear reactors that can't be shut down will squeeze their governments dry for funding.
Plus, of course, offering terrorists across the globe more and more easy targets to wipe out a generation.
But perhaps the most shocking fact of all is this. Those 30 big reactors, brand new, 30 of them... how much do you think that would give China of the energy it will need in 2020 when they are all running?
50%?
40%?
25%?
10%?
5%?
Those reactors, combined with the ones still running that China has now, will contribute just 4% of their energy needs.
That's if, of course, they haven't blown us all up by then anyway.
30 nuclear reactors in 14 years, all made in China.
Bollocks.