That’s the issue I’m taking about. US won’t let China build it’s infrastructure. Neither will may other countries due to the diplomatic issues that come with it. Since the design is controlled by the government, that seems like it would make licencing it to interested parties outside of China more difficult. No one wants strings attached, and using thorium reactors as a diplomatic weapon isn’t good for the adoption of the technology.
US has absolutely no say regarding where China builds infrastructure. China is currently the major trading partner for vast majority of countries in the world, and US isn’t even a close second. And it’s pretty clearly that lots of countries actually do want Chinese technology as evidenced by the fact that China is building infrastructure across the globe.
That’s the issue I’m taking about. US won’t let China build it’s infrastructure. Neither will may other countries due to the diplomatic issues that come with it. Since the design is controlled by the government, that seems like it would make licencing it to interested parties outside of China more difficult. No one wants strings attached, and using thorium reactors as a diplomatic weapon isn’t good for the adoption of the technology.
US has absolutely no say regarding where China builds infrastructure. China is currently the major trading partner for vast majority of countries in the world, and US isn’t even a close second. And it’s pretty clearly that lots of countries actually do want Chinese technology as evidenced by the fact that China is building infrastructure across the globe.
Yeah I’m not disagreeing. I just think that the technology would be more widely accepted and implemented if it didn’t come with strings attached