Why Is Bill Gates Selling Nuclear Tech to China?
19th December 2011
By reaching out to China — as well as a handful of up-and-coming foreign powers like India, Korea and Russia — to build the experimental new nuclear reactors, there is no mistaking the message: The prospects are brighter for a nuclear power start-up to make it in China than in the U.S. When Gates went looking for partners, he landed in Beijing, not Seattle. In fact, as the Wall Street Journal pointed out in February after Gates met with the Chinese scientific establishment earlier this year, “Current U.S. rules don’t even cover the type of technology TerraPower hopes to use.” Ouch.
December 20th, 2011 at 09:45
The US government is definitely creating incentives for top scientists, but they are incentives to go elsewhere.