Oh, sure, the *Chinese* get to build new reactors…

China will start construction of a 600 MWe fourth generation nuclear reactor and it could be Terrapower traveling wave reactor

This seems to be a joint venture between the Chinese and TerraPower, a Bellevue, Washington company. While it’s good to see an American company building a new reactor, two things come to mind:

1) It would be better if the development was being done here in the US, for the benefit of the American electrical grid, American construction workers, American nuclear engineers and the American economy

2) This would be the same China that’s trying to gobble up the South China Sea *and* recently gave the world this (note: filmed by an American millenial, with the sort of limited vocabulary we’ve come to expect from American millenials educated in the Department of Educations best style… so, y’know, NSFW):