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To: LindyBill who wrote (80616)	10/25/2004 3:28:09 PM
From: Triffin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793895

The Chinese have one .. Known as China's MIT, Tsinghua University sprawls across a Qing-dynasty imperial garden, just outside the rampart of mirrored Blade Runner towers that line Beijing's North Fourth Ring Road. Wang Dazhong came here in the mid-1950s as a member of China's first-ever class of homegrown nuclear engineers. Now he's director emeritus of Tsinghua's Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology, aka INET, and a key member of Beijing's energy policy team. On a bright morning dimmed by Beijing's ever-present photochemical haze, Wang sits in a spartan conference room lit by energy-efficient compact fluorescent bulbs. "If you're going to have 300 gigawatts of nuclear power in China - 50 times what we have today - you can't afford a Three Mile Island or Chernobyl," Wang says. "You need a new kind of reactor." That's exactly what you can see 40 minutes away, behind a glass-enclosed guardhouse flanked by military police. Nestled against a brown mountainside stands a five-story white cube whose spare design screams, "Here be engineers!" Beneath its cavernous main room are the 100 tons of steel, graphite, and hydraulic gear known as HTR-10 (i.e., high-temperature reactor, 10 megawatt). The plant's output is underwhelming; at full power - first achieved in January - it would barely fulfill the needs of a town of 4,000 people. But what's inside HTR-10, which until now has never been visited by a Western journalist, makes it the most interesting reactor in the world. Triff ..

To: LindyBill who wrote (80616)	10/25/2004 3:38:46 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793895

Cafe Hayek where orders emerge No One in Charge By Russell Roberts on Prices Here's an AP story with my favorite explanation for the flu vaccine crisis: The heart of the problem, experts say, may be that no one person or agency is truly in charge of making sure that the United States has an adequate vaccine supply. That sums up everything that's wrong with the way "experts" look at the world. If no one's in charge, of course it's messed up, they reason. But no one's in charge of the pencil supply or the bread supply or the shirt supply and they're all supplied in abundance. The heart of the vaccine crisis is that we don't let people profit enough from selling vaccine or distributing it. The justification is public health. The result of that noble ideal is that public health suffers.