Something is definitely not right with China’s nuclear ambitions, plans and actual accomplishments. The Chinese, desperate for non smog producing sources of electricity, had aspirations to have over 100 functioning nuclear power plants. They have fewer than twenty. For whatever reason they do not seem able to build and staff nuclear power plants. Suspect the CCP was frustrated and was about to behave in a traditional communist manner when people don’t achieve their goals or perform as expected. This guy may have been facing a purge, humiliation and possibly an arrest for “corruption”. Suicide may have seemed preferable.
Why the Chinese do not seem capable of constructing and staffing nuclear power plants is something worth knowing.
“…Why the Chinese do not seem capable of constructing and staffing nuclear power plants is something worth knowing.”
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Perhaps their nuclear power plants are proving as effective as their COVID-19 vaccines … 50% work and 50% susceptible to catastrophic failure,
I can count on my hand the smart capable nuclear engineers left in this country since the democrats labeled nuclear as being evil in the 70s in the good old USA.
This guy may have been facing a purge, humiliation and possibly an arrest for “corruption”.
The word of the purge travels fast and far.
Can humiliation and the gulag be far behind?
Escape into the void, nothing you do will save your family.
At least in the other world your punishment will be your own.
“Nuke” much of anything requires incredible, sustained attention to detail, follow every rule without fail, and NO shortcuts ever.
It’s not that there are not any Chinese who can do this, but, of those I’ve met in industry and tech, it is a limited pool. Especially that last part: It’s as if “no shortcuts” is contrary to being Chinese.
My brother spent five years in China as a program manager for the engineering of a manufacturing facility for a multinational project. He said Chinese engineers can often do calculus in their head, can remember rote processes to follow in exquisite detail, but often don’t know how to address an engineering problem, how to figure out the actual problem that you apply the math and science to solve. No imagination, no creativity.
He said he’d rather have a class of bright American high schoolers to work with than Chinese engineers. You can teach a bright, inquisitive kid the math and science, but you can’t teach someone whose creativity is stifled the “steps to be creative.”
As well, Chinese society is overwhelmed with total corruption. It’s so complete, they don’t even recognize it as such. Everyone is so caught up in following the dictates of the corrupt system, there is little room left for true innovation or original thought.
Those are a few of their problems.
And they are trying to graft that culture onto us.