This April, in a speech given at the Shanghai branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the physicist Xu Hongjie announced a breakthrough. For over a decade, his team had been working on an experimental nuclear reactor that runs on a lava-hot solution of fissile material and molten salt, rather than on solid fuel. The reactor, which went online two years ago, was a feat in itself. It is still the only one of its kind in operation in the world, and has the potential to be both safer and more efficient than the water-cooled nuclear plants that dominate the industry. Now, Xu explained, his team had been able to refuel the reactor without shutting it down, demonstrating a level of mastery over their new system.
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I just love how Americans 1) assume that if China does something well then by definition America is somehow losing and 2) assume that if China and America have a collaboration then it is the Americans giving Chinese scientist a lift up, not the other way round. Which is really weird considering how many scientists China trains compared to the USA and how many of them are working in America. So it sort of sounds more like China giving America a lift up.
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This April, in a speech given at the Shanghai branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the physicist Xu Hongjie announced a breakthrough. For over a decade, his team had been working on an experimental nuclear reactor that runs on a lava-hot solution of fissile material and molten salt, rather than on solid fuel. The reactor, which went online two years ago, was a feat in itself. It is still the only one of its kind in operation in the world, and has the potential to be both safer and more efficient than the water-cooled nuclear plants that dominate the industry. Now, Xu explained, his team had been able to refuel the reactor without shutting it down, demonstrating a level of mastery over their new system.
I just love how Americans 1) assume that if China does something well then by definition America is somehow losing and 2) assume that if China and America have a collaboration then it is the Americans giving Chinese scientist a lift up, not the other way round. Which is really weird considering how many scientists China trains compared to the USA and how many of them are working in America. So it sort of sounds more like China giving America a lift up.