Currently China gets 69 percent of its electricity from coal.
China obviously has the latest nuclear technology.
While Bill Gates likes to point out that most of the world's nuclear plants were designed with slide rules and adapted from naval reactors, China has some of the world's most powerful supercomputers.
Three-fourths of France's nuclear infrastructure was built in just seven years, meaning China could likely do the same in five, which is about how long it takes to build a nuclear plant today.
All of Western Europe and maybe even Eastern Europe could be nuclear powered now.
Now winter is coming, and thanks to factors such as pent-up demand from lockdown recovery, low reservoirs at hydroelectric facilities, a low "Wind season" in Europe and elsewhere, along with an inability to scale up other "Renewables" above current levels, Europe finds itself in a bad way.
So Europe is rediscovering coal and paying a fortune for the privilege, in no small part because of those not so blah, blah, blah carbon permits.
https://noqreport.com/2021/10/07/green-europe-looks-to-coal-again/
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