Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "China’s Electricity Problem" video.

  1. Ask how many Dzungars there are left in China. Answer: almost none, the Mongol Dzungars were genocided out of existence by Hàn invaders aided by their then Turkic Uyghur allies.
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  2. China's nuclear power program isn't exactly the role model considering its plants regularly dump more radioactive waste into the ocean than the entirety of Fukushima's stored reactor coolant getting gradually released now.
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  3. Probably interferes too much with shipping lanes, which are also critical to China's economic security. Plus there's the yearly typhoons, which very few turbines could withstand.
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  4. "if". You're asking for perfection from imperfect humans further divided by jurisdictional lines. Because "when" a mistake happens, it can take out whole areas from usability permanently. Doesn't matter what the fuel is either, because anything above-ground going nuclear is significantly more toxic to the environment.
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  5. China is just slightly larger than the US Lower 48, but half of it is inaccessible or uninhabitable. It be like if everything west of Missouri was like Nevada.
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  6. China doesn't help itself when it advertises everything it does some sort of ideal model, while severely suppressing and undercompensating all the real domestic criticism and protest its projects create.
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