No experience of Korean nuclear engineering myself, but I was talking to a senior manager from Horizon the other day, and he said that of all the overseas suppliers had had been dealing with, he had been most impressed by the Koreans.
There's a lot to be said for it. But you really need to get international agreement on licensing. Imagine if every country had a different approach to regulating aircraft.
It will be interesting to see if the government funding for SMRs actually leads to anything. One of the problems is that SMRs could be really good for smaller and developing countries, but it's only a few large industrialised countries which are building nuclear plants, and then the economies of scale of larger plant kick in. South Africa started making a good case for the PBMR nearly 20 years ago, but it got nowhere.
On an allied front, does anyone know about all this legal wrangling in Japan about whether they will restart their nuclear reactors or not?I heard it on a foreign station yesterday. It seems there is disagreement about the safety of them after the problems encountered when they got the tsunami, even though steps have been taken to protect the control systems now. Brian
Our students find this sort of thing confusing they ask me to order somethi ng from amazon that says next day despatch and can;t work out why the follo wing morning it hasn't arrived from china and expect us to pay for amazon p rime or an express delivery service.
How many tee shirts and the like do you have? Its only in the last few weeks that China has agreed not to put made in China labels in North Korean produce clothing.
Slightly related is the urge I get to punch people in the face (looks at local MP) whose immediate response to my complaint about unavailability of is to Google and then screenshot the results with the response "there are loads of them".
Yeah. Right up to the point where you try to ACTUALLY order .
OK clothing maybe, but I don't for a minute believe they are producing any significant tech for the world market.
In Soviet days, the USSR was proud of getting quite decent optics into the west as a way of getting foreign exchange. And the odd radio and TV. In fact my own first TV, in the early 70's, was a six inch B&W which ran on mains or 12 volts.
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