Key Highlights
- It is still the only one of its kind in operation in the world, and has the potential to be both safer and more efficient than the water-cooled nuclear plants that dominate the industry.
- Now, Xu explained, his team had been able to refuel the reactor without shutting it down, demonstrating a level of mastery over their new system. As dazzling as that was, the timing of Xu’s speech also freighted the topic with geopolitical import.
- Only a few months earlier, DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial-intelligence company, had set alarms ringing through the U. S.
- tech world when it became clear that the relatively small Chinese startup, operating under U. S.
- export controls, had created a large language model that rivalled anything devised by the behemoths of Silicon Valley.
