China’s government is breathing life into its nuclear sector with the approval of the country’s first new reactors in more than two years. The National Development and Reform Commission, China’s top economic-planning agency, approved construction of two reactors in the country’s northeastern Liaoning province by state-owned China General Nuclear Power Corp., according to a statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange by the company’s listed unit, CGN Power Co. The statement said the NDRC approved units five and six of the Hongyanhe nuclear-power plant, located near the coastal city of Dalian. China has two operating reactors at Hongyanhe as well as two others already under construction, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The NDRC didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the […]