This is good news, especially given the importance of nuclear energy supported even by super-smart liberal folks like Bill Gates.
China is pushing ahead with Generation IV nuclear power technology, cheaper and safer than what we have now.
It's a great pity that Australia gave up its nuclear ambitions, under alarmist pressure from the Greens. We're happy to export uranium, but not to use it ourselves, which has always struck me as hypocritical, at least.
So it's a pity that Australia is not even taking part in the Generation IV International Forum. We could be doing that with no commitment if only we had some base knowledge of nuclear technology.
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China is pushing ahead with ambitious plans for its nuclear industry, including developing cleaner and safer next-generation technology.
A particular focus is a plan to develop the world's first large-scale thorium-powered, molten-salt reactors – which could generate less radioactive waste and help reduce the reliance on fossil fuels to reduce the world's energy needs – by 2020.
Nuclear remains the best — perhaps the only — way to get base-load power without CO2.
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