Nuclear monitoring stations to triple

China to become second-largest worldwide for installed capacity

China will more than triple the number of stations monitoring atmospheric radiation levels nationwide by 2020 as part of a nuclear energy security plan, a senior official from China's nuclear energy security authority said on Thursday.

"We plan to build another 135 auto-monitoring stations this year in a bid to gradually improve the network and strengthen the monitoring capacity in nuclear energy security," said Guo Chengzhan, head of nuclear and radiation security management at the Ministry of Environmental Protection.