Every major sports team has accomplishments that another team doesn't have.
That a team won the Superbowl in 1970 doesn't give them a reason to claim that all other teams are trailing them.
If a company claims to have 50 patents they still don't get to claim to be market leader if you don't compare them to others.
We have these groups of volunteers gathering trash along the roadside.
The more they collect the more they can earn for their good cause or their organisation.
They're being cheap cleanup for the companies that sell trash and by collecting trash they keep the stats down.
Yeah. I'm over 40 years into the metric system and I keep making this mistake intuitively. I don't make it when doing calculations bit just when quick guessing.
I'm quite happy that you stick with your Chinese name. You should never give in to the pressure. I'm Belgian. My country has three languages and the French speaking friends always mess up the pronunciation.
When it matters, like when I'm certain I'll meet them again, I correct the pronunciation. I became better at it and found words for reference. So when they pronounce the word correctly, they get my name too.
The article doesn't make any arguments for being ahead on nuclear tech.
It just lists accomplishments and speaks of the launch of a closed cycle nuclear reactor announced by Putin.
The generation IV International Forum (GIF) which includes Russia has announced this in 2002 and selected the 6 gen IV systems most suited for development out of about 100 proposed designs.
The original charter members of GIF are Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, Japan, South Korea, South Africa, the UK and the USA. They have been joined by Switzerland, China, Russia, Australia and, through the Euratom research and training programme, the European Union.
Seems to me no country can solely claim this advancement
Most of the countries are party to the 2005 Framework Agreement, which formally commits them to participate in the development of one or more Generation IV systems selected by GIF for further R&D. Argentina, Australia and Brazil did not sign the Framework Agreement, and the UK withdrew from it. Russia formalized its accession to the Framework Agreement in August 2009 as its tenth member, with Rosatom as implementing agent.
It's not the ID. It's the implementation. I do like the Belgian implementation.. It's been nearly 10 years now and it seems to be pretty secure and trustworthy.
And to add to that. You were 16. Give yourself a break. It took me to get the age of 38 to start pursuing a job that I was genuinely good at and liked to do.
The west, the east, the north, the south... Wherever you build your reactor it will overshoot its estimated budget and wil be overshadowed by renewables.
But yes, there are many variables and the answer always lies in differentiating.
**Puts on British voice
''You tooting foghorn of ignorance''