Chapotraphouse

Given that China is probably always 5+ years ahead of us both in nuclear and renewable generation tech, it's hard to know..

China has a lot of different terrains, it may be more suitable locations that do make economic sense, it may be to just utilise existing industrial chains to maximise the speed with which they can ramp up energy production, maybe the new-gen nuclear is somehow that much magically better, or it may just be outdated decision making.

Without knowing highly technical chinese, who knows. But to be honest, there's no reason to think the picture is that drastically different. Probably a complicated combination of all the factors and more.

I agree the onset of stuff like cheap cheap sodium batteries could be further game changers.