[verum ago]

100 megawatts? A conventional fission reactor typically produces ten times that amount.

Yeah, that is a hell of a lot of money to spend for 100 MW, especially in a country that has no compunction about burning coal and vastly lower building costs and red tape for such things than the US.

My gut reaction is : what are they up to?

To pull a wild guess out of my tailpipe, I'd say it's some sort of disguised breeder reactor for weapons material or some other exotic thing.

[verum ago]

replied to myself to add*:

and this supposedly some random provincial government doing this? In a country where even small companies have to have government approval for their activities (see: communism)?!

Yeah, something's up here.




I love FR, but good Lord is it behind the times. I'm not a member of a single other forum that doesn't allow editing.