China's experimental fast nuclear reactor will be on trial in May 2010, Kang Rixin, General Manager of China National Nuclear Corporation, said in Chengdu on Monday at the 21st International Fusion Energy Conference.

The reactor is expected to burn 60-70 percent of its uranium fuel while a conventional reactor consumes only 0.7 per cent of the uranium it is fed.

China began researching fast nuclear reactor technology in 1995 and invested 1.4 billion yuan in the construction of the experimental reactor.

(Xinhua News Agency October 17, 2006)