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China Goes Nuclear

Posted by michael on from the power-to-the-people dept.

Rei writes "Wired reports that the People's Republic of China has announced plans to build 30 new nuclear reactors by the year 2020, and by 2050 have almost as much nuclear power as the entire world produces today. The reactors are to be pebble bed reactors, in which helium replaces radioactive, pressurized water. A Chinese research institution demonstrated the safety of their test reactor against meltdown by shutting off the coolant."

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  1. It's plain and clear by just_gecko · · Score: 0, Troll

    They want to have world monopoly over the electric power. They will sell it cheap, and make the world depend on them, so they can stop the reactors, leaving us in the dark. I am going to buy a UPS tomorrow, I won't have my computer depend on the Chinise Electric Power World Monopoly.

  2. nucalear lobby invasion? by virtualone · · Score: 1, Troll

    normally (ok, at least sometimes) there is a balanced discussion here on slashdot.
    but on this surprisingly un-interesting topic (at least for the regular slashdotter) we see very strong opinions how good and bright nuclear power is.

    have we been invaded by the nuclear power mafia or are just the people with mod points biased towards this topic?

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  3. Re:rediculous by proj_2501 · · Score: 0, Troll

    the hanford site was used to develop nuclear weapons material before anyone knew anything about nuclear power. -1 irrelevant.

  4. Re:Racist French assholes by outofcoffee · · Score: 0, Troll
    Xenophobe. Go fuck a doghnut. How the fuck can you disregard "Yes, Muslim domination over their women is terrible" - it's like saying "Yes I'm a hiprocrate because I casually dismiss the taking of basic human rights as you do".

    Fuck off.

    In the UK we're not as sickly unaware of the rest of the world as you are. People like you are going to die a lonely lonely death. It's only your own insecurity that requires you to continually reaffirm your own 'greatness' to all who will listen.

  5. Job Change by xeon4life · · Score: 1, Troll

    Hopefully, China wont assign it's farmers to be Nuclear Engineers.

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  6. Re:Nuclear energy works! by misleb · · Score: 0, Troll
    Face the truth -- nuclear is the best hope for clean energy.

    That doesn't leave much hope. Face reality, there is no hope in the near future for clean energy. Nuclear isn't it. There is no easy answer to the radioactive waste problem. You're just shifting the problem to a different context. Fossil-fuel waste polutes the air and nuclear waste polutes the water (eventually). No amount of mindless techno-optimism can change that. We've heard it all before. Let the disillusionment commense....

    -matthew

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