Though the two countries are now in a race to develop atomic technology, China’s most advanced reactor was the result of collaboration with American scientists, Colin Jones writes.
This April, in a speech given at the Shanghai branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the physicist Xu Hongjie announced a breakthrough. For over a decade, his team had been working on an experimental nuclear reactor that runs on a lava-hot soluti… [19668 chars]
Source: The New Yorker | Published: 2025-12-18T20:26:06Z
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