“No quick wins” is some weird editorializing OP. That phrase is nowhere in the article. The closest thing to it is that China managed this breakthrough due to “strategic stamina,” i.e it took time to make this work. Since thorium reactors were proposed in the late 90s and this is the first that appears commercislly viable, that is literally true.
Overall, this is a huge accomplishment, especially if China is willing to share the design. Even if they aren’t, this should dramatically ramp down China’s fossil fuel usage over the next couple of decades, so its still a win for the rest of us.
The phrase ‘No quick wins’ is, however, found in the webpage title when I load the page in Firefox. It is embedded in the page meta properties. OP probably used a “suggest title” feature in their client. Load it up and see for yourself.
html>head>meta
<meta property=“og:title” content"‘No quick wins’:China has the world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor" data-next-head=“”>
The article title and webpage title being out of sync implies to me a changed headline, with the webpage title being the original. Or maybe it is intentional to provide aggregators with a different title.
The tag is:
meta property="og:title" content="‘No quick wins’: China has the world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor"An
og:titlemeta tag basically means “hey, if someone posts this on their social media, use this as the title”.So yeah OP is off the hook
.Interesting, so they change the narrative when its posted on social media apps vs on the web…
“No quick wins” was in the original title of the article. SCMP often change their title within a few hours of releasing an article.
If you link the article as a post, that’s still the title Lemmy automatically recommends.
I found the following article from 2019 that contradicts several claims in this article (archive link). I am not familiar with this tech, so if anyone of you is, could you share your thoughts?
