The U.S. is more than a decade behind China in its development of high-tech nuclear power generation ... be fierce between China and the United States in the years ahead," they wrote.

China is expected to double its nuclear ... military power. Russia has about 1,550 deployed strategic warheads and 2,000 non-strategic warheads, according to the report. Behind China are France ...

"As the countries with the largest nuclear arsenals, the United States ... and China's trying to catch up because they're very substantially behind. But in five or six years they'll be even." ...

Over the past ten years, meanwhile, China has inked contracts ... making the shutdown of a nuclear power plant devastating for a nation’s power grid and economic stability. The United States is not ...

China has now surpassed France in terms of generation, though not capacity; it still lags behind the US ... Power is building reactors that use molten salt as a coolant for small nuclear reactors ...

The United States is more than a decade ... All told, the report estimates that China is likely 10 to 15 years ahead of the U.S. in nuclear power and is on track to overtake the U.S. as the ...

US as Many as 15 Years Behind China on Nuclear Power, Report Says By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. is as many as 15 years behind China on developing high-tech nuclear power as ...