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107 sats \ 3 replies \ @OT 23 Nov \ on: Chinese molten salt reactor achieves conversion of thorium-uranium fuel science
Personally I'd remain skeptical about all the new technological breakthroughs coming out of China. The CCP have been using soft power to buy into mainstream media and control narrative.
I remain skeptical for a couple of reasons. Why all of a sudden all these new tech breakthroughs happen when Trump came into power. China is well know for reverse engineering goods but not for innovation.
There's a quote that I'll probably mess up from The Art of War. "When weak, appear strong."
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The Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reports that the breakthrough, which took place at an experimental reactor out in the Gobi Desert, is “poised to reshape the future of clean sustainable nuclear energy.”
I don't have a dog in this fight and I could be wrong. I will say that peer reviewed papers from universities also don't convince me due to similar reasons. Nobody reads this stuff and also Universities have also been bought out by CCP soft power.
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If you think nobody reads journals like Nature, and other scientific stalwarts (which are independent of particular academic institutions), then you really have no idea how modern science works. Who reads them? Scientists read them! Science is an international, open, collaborative effort in pursuit of new knowledge. Researchers publish their work in open journals, after a long process of rigorous review from other researchers in the field. They are published in a way that provides enough information for other researchers to reproduce, and verify (or fail to verify) the work. Chinese researchers are now the largest contributors to public science, and have been for years.
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