Nuclear plant to be built in Shandong

SINGAPORE - China will start building a nuclear power plant next month using fourth-generation technology that may be less susceptible to meltdown than Japan's damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant.

"The world's first high-temperature, gas-cooled reactor" will be installed at Rongcheng in Shandong province, Cui Shaozhang, deputy general manager at Huaneng Nuclear Power Development Co, said in an interview on Tuesday in Singapore.

"There are differences between the Japanese and Chinese reactors," Cui said. "Japan's Fukushima plant was using old technology while Chinese reactors are more advanced."