OREANDA-NEWS  Russia will help China surpass the United States in the installed capacity of nuclear power plants, Alexey Likhachev, head of Rosatom, told Rossiya-1 TV channel.

"China has ambitious plans for the development of nuclear energy. The task has been set to catch up and surpass the United States of America in installed capacity, which means reaching a capacity of more than 100 gigawatts," Likhachev said.

According to him, Russia will help China achieve this goal - four nuclear reactors with a capacity of more than a gigawatt have already been created, and four more are under construction.