The American investigation Institute Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) published in mid-June this year a study “How Innovative Is China in atomic Power?” ("How innovative is China in atomic energy?").
The main conclusions of this survey are:
Although China has started building its atomic power manufacture on the basis of alien technologies, it has become a planet leader in this area, and Chinese companies are technologically ahead of their western competitors;
From 2020 to 2035 China intends to build 150 fresh atomic reactors, presently 27 reactors are under construction. At the end of 2023, 56 reactors worked in China. The average construction time for each reactor was about 7 years, much shorter than the planet average. In 2030, China will overtake the United States in terms of the amount of energy produced from atomic power plants;
The United States currently, with 94 functioning atomic reactors, remains a planet leader in atomic energy production. 1 3rd of the world's energy generated from atomic reactions is produced here. However, in the last 2 decades, only 2 fresh atomic reactors have been launched in the United States. This is, of course, a evidence to the slowdown in atomic energy improvement in the US;
According to authoritative Chinese sources, more than 90 percent of the technology for Chinese atomic power was developed by Chinese scientists and engineers themselves;
In December 2023, in the Chinese state of ShanDong (chin. 山东) the world's first advanced temperature atomic reactor was connected with gas-cooled 4th generation.
China is simply a planet leader in developing and launching cost-competitive tiny modular reactors (SMR, tiny Modular Reactions);
American experts estimation that China is most likely ahead of the United States by 10 to 15 years in its capacity to deploy 4th generation atomic reactors on a large scale;
China's atomic innovation strengths are peculiarly applicable to areas
- organisation,
- systemic innovation,
- rapid improvement and implementation.
For example, many 4th generation atomic technologies have been widely known in the planet for years, but have been developed in China thanks to the strong support of this sector by the state. This distinguishes China from another countries. State support for Chinese energy as specified has besides dominated the global renewable energy sector and the production of electrical vehicles.
Analysts estimation that America and China are most likely at an equal level in their efforts to make atomic fusion technology, but inform that China is more capable of building large-scale and more powerful fusion reactors.
In terms of quantity of technological publications on atomic energy China ranks first according to the alleged H Index H, the bibliometric Hirsch index, introduced in 2005 by Jorge Hirsch, aims to show the meaning of all the technological works of the author, characterizing his full achievements, alternatively than just the importance of 1 work, as a specified citation rate. The indicator reflects the distribution of citations of a peculiar scientist's publications and the number of its best publications. The usage of this indicator makes sense erstwhile comparing the achievements of researchers working in the same field of science, as the average number of citations of single publications is powerfully dependent on the field of research.
From 2008 to 1923, China's global share of atomic technology patents increased from 1.3 percent to 13.4 percent. China is the leader in the number of patent applications for atomic fusion.
In the final conclusions, the study warns that if the US takes atomic energy seriously, it should make a sound national strategy in this area. Although the US is now lagging behind China, the authors are convinced that they are surely capable of catching up technologically.
My 3 fens (three Chinese pennies)
Reading this report, 1 cannot defy the impression that this is another area of the economy in which China has already begun to overtake the United States or another western countries. erstwhile these countries enjoyed their advantage and success, they did not pay attention, even ignored that hard-working competition in the East was born. The Americans seem to have begun to realize the scale and the species weight of the changes. But did they realize what these changes were? I don't think so. alternatively of taking part in the technological race again, alternatively of getting to work, they bet on sanctions, blockades, decopuling or de-risking.
This is not how you win in a liberal and free marketplace economy, especially with China.
Based on: itif.org/publications/2024/06/17/how-innovative-is-china-in-nuclear-power/
Author: 梁安基 Andrzej Z. Liang, 上海 Shanghai, 中国 China
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