Russia says it will help China grow its nuclear power capacity and overtake the U.S. as a leading producer of nuclear energy.  

The U.S. currently has 94 nuclear reactors, the most in the world, followed by France and China, tied with 57 each, according to the Power Reactor Information System database.  

China is working to expand the number of nuclear reactors it has and “has ambitious plans for the development of atomic energy,” Alexei Likhachev, Russia’s Rosatom chief, told Russian state television. 

“The task has been set to catch up and surpass the United States in installed capacity, which means reaching a capacity of more than 100 gigawatts,”........

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