A broadcast by TV Asahi’s Hōdō Station exposed China’s pursuit of Helium-3 for nuclear fusion energy, dealing a decisive blow to Japan’s anti-nuclear moralism. This essay examines how technological reality dismantles ideological pretenses.

Moreover, the preceding chapter of 報道ステーション conveyed an even more staggering fact.
2016-08-27
Helium-3
Moreover, the preceding chapter of Hōdō Station conveyed an even more staggering fact.
It was tantamount to an atomic bomb dropped by China, a one-party dictatorship under the Communist Party, upon Japan’s “pretend” moralism.
Nuclear fusion between deuterium and helium-3 has a high Coulomb barrier and is considered to exceed even the mass defect of the D-T reaction, which is regarded as relatively easy to realize as a fusion reactor. Helium-3, unlike tritium, is non-radioactive, and because the D-3He reaction does not generate neutrons, it is considered comparatively easy to handle.
Helium-3 exists in Earth’s atmosphere at only one-millionth the level of helium-4. However, it exists in the solar atmosphere at an isotopic ratio of 0.0142% and is present in far greater quantities on the lunar surface than on Earth. For this reason, research is being conducted into extracting helium-3 from lunar rocks. This is because helium-3 produced during Big Bang nucleosynthesis accumulated in the solar atmosphere, whereas on Earth, most of the helium present during the planet’s formation escaped into outer space, and the helium now found in Earth’s atmosphere is largely the result of alpha decay of thorium and uranium within rocks. On the Moon, by contrast, helium-3 supplied by the solar wind accumulates. (From Wikipedia)
China, a one-party dictatorship under the Communist Party, is aiming to collect this helium-3, as a senior officer of the space development unit of the People’s Liberation Army stated on screen.
The purpose, needless to say, is nuclear power generation through nuclear fusion.
They dropped an atomic bomb on the heads of Japan’s “pretend” moralists. If the TV Asahi caster, the standard-bearer of Japan’s “pretend” moralists, could do nothing but laugh nervously, that might still be forgivable.
The leader of a Communist one-party dictatorship—no mere monster of the nineteenth century, but a monster worthy of the pre-Christian era even in the twenty-first century—dropped an atomic bomb of unprecedented scale on the heads of the “anti-nuclear” movement orchestrated by Japan’s “pretend” moralists.
Of course, the leader of this Communist one-party dictatorship also dropped an atomic bomb of unprecedented scale on the heads of the world’s “pretend” moralists, represented by The New York Times.