Mure Dickie: China pioneers ‘cheap, safe’ nuclear reactors

From the Financial Times:

The icy draft whistling through the entrance hall of Tsinghua University’s 10-megawatt high-temperature reactor building offers a sharp contrast to the technology humming away unseen behind its walls.

But Chinese nuclear researcher Xu Yuanhui shows no sign of letting the chill of a winter day in north-west Beijing cool his enthusiasm as he introduces a visitor to the science that drives the world’s only operational “pebble bed” nuclear reactor.

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