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© Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.China sets sights on new global export: nuclear energy
By JOE McDONALD BEIJING©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Wakarimasen
North Korea also want to export nuclear, although their delivery mechanism is slightly different.
smithinjapan
Geez... I don't know... I think Japanese might even be more trustworthy in this case.
presto345
This is what the world needs.
smithinjapan
And by the above I meant the Japanese nuclear technology and regulators.
lostrune2
This.
If there's a safety incident or heavens-forbid an explosion, what is the recourse? Sue the Chinese government to disclose safety history documents?
Hmmm...... one wonders how
5SpeedRacer5
"the Union of Concerned Scientists "
Somebody caught these guys in a packet of lies not too long ago. One of their scientists wrote a long article about Fukushima that included information about "getting off the bullet train at Iwaki station" and "having to get local radiation information from scientists" despite the fact that it is reported every day in the local paper. Dumb mistakes that make me really wonder if they bother to really research anything, or if they just want to get the party line out there. Go to their website. They sure don't sound like scientists, however "concerned" they are with things. Oh. And make sure to donate generously. They "value" your "support."
But anyway, most of the article is informative. I suppose people will have various emotional reactions. What people will NOT consider is WHY China is able to move ahead so quickly with nuclear development. It is simply less regulation. Can you put a value on human life? Sure you can. People do it every day. And in places like Japan and the US, life is not cheap. If anything, it has gotten too expensive. You can't move your neck without someone claiming, protesting, accusing, and lawyering up. In China, Pakistan and India, you just pay the right people one way or another, and there you have it. Go ahead and debate that, but consider.
Who benefits from all that regulation in the west? The Chinese. We all know that no matter what we think about how safe US and Japanese designs are, we know from experience that they can withstand 9.0 earthquakes and 1000 year tsunamis at least half the time. We know that we can achieve shutdowns in catastrophic situations with no loss of life in any case. And yet we demand more and more and more because think of the children. The Chinese can adopt all of these great features and safeguards at little or no cost to themselves. And good for them, right? Maybe we are all better off.
Oh no. We aren't are we? Because as a society, we have been railroaded by the Green movement to burn huge amounts of coal and pollute the atmosphere with radionuclides, heavy metals, soot, and CO2 instead of creating miniscule amounts of radioactive materials. Who forced us to do this? We did, with very little prodding by hysterical media and environmental groups that are willing to lie for our greater benefit. We want cheap energy and we are not willing to solve our own problems by conserving or installing solar. Even buying a battery car won't change the fact that it is powered by coal.
So here we are. Japan used to lead in nuclear technology and applications AND in greenhouse gas cutting ambitions. Those were the good old days. Now we have a populace energetic enough to complain but far too lazy to do anything about it. Constant haranguing by environmental interests has made them too cynical to accomplish anything.
Maybe Japan can export nuclear protesters. That would make China "better off," right? I wonder what they would think about that.