How does that 50% stack up against how much power they use compared to all other countries that have nuclear power available to them? Wikipedia has China's power usage in 2008 as just below the US's, but growing much faster. It also has much more of their power coming from coal in 2011 (46%, to 13%). It makes sense to me that China would be expanding their nuclear power faster than anybody else right now. Of course it would be nice if we would pick up the pace too...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption

Right, I have no issues with China using nuclear, it just highlights how much we aren't.

Cheer up, we are building some too; there are 4 nuclear plants under construction at present, which are the first new additions to the US nuclear fleet in 30 years: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/business/energy-environmen...

Somehow your comment manages to be both smugly self-assured and also clear as mud. Bravo!