Nobel Hobos 2 wrote:Slavakino wrote:We cannot let the Chinese further in further technology. They are too dangerous
The "we must stop China" spiel usually relies on the idea that the US is such an important market for the US, that Chinese industry will just collapse if Americans stop buying Made in China.
Sometimes it get a bit closer to reality, eg if America and all it's allies stop buying ...
But let's talk about what we're talking about. China is building several new designs of nuclear reactor. They're not just fooling around trying to make fusion work, because they know just from looking at the history of fusion that they'll need a lot of electricity before that happens. They're building sodium-cooled reactors for instance. Micro-reactors. Spent fuel reactors.
All of these are to provide power to the Chinese market, which is of course huge.
The US meanwhile is building 4 new reactors. They're all pressurized water reactors (tried and true! Good enough for your grandpa good enough for you!).
So what are you going to do to stop China getting further ahead? Just sit on your throne of being the world's largest nuclear generating nation ... until you're not any more? Refuse to buy Chinese and then threaten other nations who want to buy Chinese reactors instead of Westinghouse? You've got to come up with a smarter plan than sanctions, those are not going to work.
Errrr.....about half of the third generation of commercial nuclear power plant under construction in China is the American AP1000 and cap1000,cap1400 modified on this basis.CPR1000 is from France's M310. Acp1000, the only acp1000 completely developed by China, also uses the design concept of AP1000 for reference.They're also pressurized water reactors.