Coal is a very good source of liquid fuels, and China should build many more nuclear power plants and also continue its increasing use of coal for making chemicals by expanding more into producing liquid fuels. China should declare economic war on the rest of the world by quickly putting many small pebble bed reactors into service producing liquid fuels from recycled CO2 and water because they can produce the necessary hign temperature heat to do so. They can first be used to produce electricity so that coal now used for power can then be used for liquid fuels as well.

If China uses its wealth to build many more heavy water reactors like the ones at Quinshan, it can also continue its recently started use of nuclear "waste" from ordinary reactors to fuel them. China will then be able to buy spent fuel rods from US and European and Japanese reactors to fuel much of their electrical supply.

Most people are misled by the variation of the statement "A rose is a rose is a rose.'", "Plutonium is plutonium is plutonium". Ordinary uranium cannot be used directly in an atomic bomb, but people have been misled by uninformed newspapers and other media and people to believe that the plutonium in spent fuel rods is the same plutonium that was used at Nagasaki 65 years ago.

A very highly purified isotope of plutonium is needed to build a useful bomb, and this is made by exposing uranium to neutrons in reactors for just a few days instead of the nearly four years that fuel rods remain in most reactors. The much longer exposure results in a mix of plutonium isotopes not suited for making bombs.

Chernobyl was in effect a nuclear bomb powered by reactor plutonium and uranium, but it is more carfully described as a simple boiler explosion that killed less than ten people in the explosion and less than a hundred in the clean up.

The invention of the efficient Uranium isotope separation centrifuge has elimnated any need for people wishing to make the complicated plutonium bombs to do so since uranium bombs are much easier to build, and the only one used in war at Hiroshima was not even tested prior to use.

France is starting to use excess nuclear generated electricity to produce hydrogen which can be made into liquid fuels by combining with CO2.

France should also build a few CANDU reactors to get more out of its spent mox fuels, and there is considerable evidence that CANDU reactors can be started using a mix of Thorium and waste Plutonium but run thereafter by extracting the fission products from the fuel after use and adding only more thorium which is about three times more abundant than natural uranium which contains less than one percent of the useful fuel U235. Without uranium reprocessing, the energy available from thorium with reprocessing is nearly a thousand times more.

At the spot where Lewis and Clark first looked over the Continental divide, Lemhi pass, is a very large deposit of Thorium that could power the entire US for centuries.

China should now use it money to build Rubbia Reactors that are lead cooled can produce hydrogen and also can use Thorium. The cost of fuel in such reactors is negative at first because they can use the fuel remaining in used light water fuel rods. ..HG..