"Reactors built with extra safety features and more robust cooling systems to avoid a Fukushima-like disaster are expensive, while the costs of wind and solar power continue to plummet: they are now 20% cheaper than electricity from new nuclear plants in China, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Moreover, high construction costs make nuclear a risky investment. "

So much for the argument that nuclear is cost-efficient if your country just does things the way the Chinese do them.

It seems that if your country is going to invest a given amount of money in replacing fossil fuels, then you get more carbon emission reduction if you put it all in renewables as compared to part renewable and part nuclear.

"They knew that if a similar accident occurred in China, the damage wouldn’t be limited to the explosion and nuclear fallout. Such an event would call into question the government’s competence.

There is also the enormous, decades-long expense of the cleanup.

I'm not sure they're quite making the case for it being bad news. From the article, the current reactors aren't being used to full capacity. And China seems to be focussing on renewables rather than falling back on coal.