Sputnik

China now has the first fully operational thorium molten salt reactor. It is producing 40 MW of power. This could be the Chinese version of the Russian Sputnick. Recall in 1957 when Russia launched the first satellite into space called Sputnik it awakened the sleeping giant USA and started the space race. Maybe now the US will wake up and fast track a program to build small nuclear reactors. This may get the attention of the politicians.