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All western politicians holding office should be forced to watch an hour of YouTube China infrastructure porn every day until they produce YouTube infrastructure porn videos that get more views and likes than China’s. You can adjust it per-capita if you want to make it easy for them.
Recently saw a wee story about a candidate for Virginia parliament who is selling homemade porn of herself online. So I was very much not exaggerating
honestly all legislators should be required to have a state-run onlyfans. government for the people by the baddies
Well, Italy uses to have (or still does, I don't know) more than one pornstar in parliament.
The joys of post-PCI dissolution politics.
I hope they have a good plan for the resulting high-level nuclear waste. Knowing China, they probably have, but reporting on that is unfortunately very minimal.
Do enough reprocessing it's hardly a problem at all
Pro tip Jimmy Carter tried to get the world to forget
Beijing had set a target for 58GW of installed nuclear capacity by 2020, but as of September 2023 is just short of this with a combined installed capacity of 57GW, and 24 units under construction with a total installed capacity of 27.8GW, according to CNEA.
So every unit is a little over one GW? Sounds good, but their plans is to only have 18% nuclear by 2060, so it seems that won't be their most important electricity source.
Here's the energy mix China's planning on by 2060, nuclear is around 19% so looks like it's roughly on target https://www.visualcapitalist.com/chinas-energy-transition-in-5-charts/
I had thought that China was expected to abandon fossil fuels by 2060, but 14% of the total energy will still be derived from fossil fuels. Maybe that is a more realistic outlook on things, though.
2060 is their net zero target. 10 years behind the West, but I'm incredibly confident that one of those is just tortured numbers with carbon offsets like buying trees that will never be cut down. I'll let you guess which
Does anyone know if China makes their own nuclear fuel? Or do they buy it places? I don't mean raw uranium, I mean fuel-ready stuff, as AFAIK only Rosatom and Westinghouse have the technology for that
In addition China is also started building thorium reactors for which they have significant reserves of fuel domestically. The other advantage of thorium is that it uses molten salt for cooling, so the reactor doesn't need to be built next to a large body of water. They're also safer because once the reactor shuts down, salt will turn into solid and you don't have to worry about radioactive leaks.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3224183/china-gives-green-light-nuclear-reactor-burns-thorium-fuel-could-power-country-20000-years
It's kind of funny how these could've been made decades ago, but nobody cared to because thorium can't be used for nuclear weapons. So everybody would rather just mine uranium since it's dual use.
Right? I recall people talking about Thorium reactors over a decade ago, and they were already an established concept back then. Seemed like future was just around the corner - then nothing. Good thing China's doing something
