(Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, file) The United States is at least a decade and up to 15 years behind China in nuclear power, specifically rolling out next generation reactors ...

A report released on Monday highlights a significant gap between the United States and China in developing high-tech nuclear power, with the US lagging 15 years behind China. A report highlights a ...

The US is as many as 15 years behind China on developing high-tech nuclear power as Beijing's state-backed technology approach and extensive financing give it the edge, a report said on Monday.

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said China has the fastest growing nuclear arsenal in the world.

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 ...

"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." ...

Indeed, if the United States does not build the deterrent it needs, it risks falling behind Russia ... is simply unacceptable. China is the fastest-growing nuclear power on the planet.

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 ...