The world's first fourth-generation nuclear power plant, the Shidaowan high temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) nuclear power plant, officially went into commercial operation in east China's Shandong Province on Wednesday, according to the National Energy Administration and China Huaneng Group.
Hahahaha, I’m dying! I went to YouTube to find a video about high-temperature gas cooled reactor designs and found this very informative video from a professor in Illinois: https://youtu.be/_mJ3S-VQuHY?si=tNIO1F4NluetZQ1c. He goes over the basic design and benefits of them compared to Gen 3 reactors and then finishes the video, which was published 4 years ago, by saying that they are being tested out in labs and if they prove useful and commercially viable then maybe we will see them rolling out in “30 to 40 years”! And China did it in 4, embarrassing 😂
Cool video. The end addresses your point directly— “as long as there’s an economic imperative.” The profit motive is the great failure of capitalism, we are incapable of doing obviously good things unless they make rich people more money.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: