For the Xi Jinping administration, China’s domestically developed reactor “Hualong One” is not only a symbol of advanced technology, but also a strategic export product at the core of the Belt and Road initiative.
Based on a Yomiuri Shimbun article, this essay highlights the fierce U.S.-China competition in the nuclear field and the dangers of the ongoing anti-nuclear movement and anti-nuclear reporting within Japan.

2019-07-01
For the Xi Jinping administration, which aims to become a “great nuclear power,” Hualong One is not only a symbol of advanced technology, but also a strategic export product to be promoted through China-led mega-economic bloc initiative, the “Belt and Road.”

This is a chapter I posted on 2019-04-19 under the title, Asahi, NHK, and the Left-Wing Infantilists Who Abnormally and Obsessively Cry Out Against Nuclear Power, Together with Those Still Not Free from GHQ Brainwashing and Those Under the Influence Operations of China and the Korean Peninsula, Acting Under the Name of So-Called Citizen Groups.
The following is from an article published the other day in the Yomiuri Shimbun under the title “U.S.-China Clash.”
It makes instantly clear the true nature of the anti-nuclear movement carried out under the name of so-called citizen groups by Asahi and NHK, who cry out against nuclear power with abnormal persistence, by left-wing infantilists, by those whose GHQ brainwashing has not been lifted, and by those under the influence operations of China and the Korean Peninsula.
The Day the “Leader in Nuclear Power” Changes.
“The United States has remained the leader in nuclear power generation for sixty years, but if things continue like this, it will probably be overtaken by China within ten years.”
At the February 28 hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, International Energy Agency Executive Director Fatih Birol said this.
The United States and China are now competing in the field of nuclear power as well.
At the Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant in Fujian Province, China, where a sign proclaiming “nuclear great power” stands, construction is under way on two units of China’s domestically developed reactor, “Hualong One” (output: 1.15 million kilowatts).
For the Xi Jinping administration, which aims to become a “great nuclear power,” Hualong One is not only a symbol of advanced technology, but also a strategic export product to be promoted through China-led mega-economic bloc initiative, the “Belt and Road.”
Meanwhile, U.S. President Trump has set as a policy goal “the revival and expansion of nuclear energy.”
The “small modular reactor (SMR)” being developed by NuScale Power, a startup company in Oregon, is a new kind of reactor that uses multiple small reactors, each with an output of 60,000 kilowatts, in combination.
Even before construction, it is already highly popular overseas.
After the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear accident, new construction and expansion of nuclear power plants in the United States stagnated, but the world is now watching closely to see how far it can stage a comeback.
(Washington Bureau: Funakoshi Sho.
Shenyang Bureau: Azuma Keiichiro.)