Zeta [they/them]

Taking a page out of the US playbook

Yup. Capitalism/fascism led to WW2 and the nuclear bombing of Japan by a capitalist state, requiring the USSR and China to develop an equally powerful countermeasure.

A much bigger thorium molten salt reactor is already being built in China and is slated to achieve criticality by 2030

I read that and thought “damn that’s such a long time away” before realizing 2030 is in just 5 years now