If an 'environmental activist' isn't supporting nuclear energy, I can't take them seriously and it's most likely just a political group and has nothing to do with actually saving the planet.
Looking... and? Compare those to the victims in Bhopal for example.
Safety studies are available and they place nuclear as one of the safest if not the safest energy sources on a TWh basis. Depending how you look at it, nuclear is safer than wind and even solar [1]
With that said, it could be even safer if we focused on the safety of nuclear rather than on killing it.
Is the Chinese researcher credible? It sounds a bit like a sales pitch from the US fusion industry.
Is this a good time to start learning Mandarin?
If they really can outpace us, good luck to 'em. We Americans pride ourselves on our magnanimity in dispensing tech goodies to the world. Maybe we can get the benefit of somebody else's work for a while. And maybe it'll even take a little heat off of us, which we attract because of the way we've controlled the world.
