From the International Herald Tribune (link):
For most of the two decades since the Chernobyl disaster, Russia’s nuclear construction industry languished as engineers labored to apply the lessons learned from the accident to improve reactor design and safety.
Power stations that were already under construction in Russia at the time of the 1986 accident went into service but no new plants were started.
Now China’s ambitious drive to generate more electricity from nuclear energy is accelerating the revival of a once mighty technical giant.
