CHINA-SICHUAN-CHENGDU-SCIENTISTS-YOUNG GENERATION (CN)

CHINA-SICHUAN-CHENGDU-SCIENTISTS-YOUNG GENERATION (CN)

(220504) -- CHENGDU, May 4, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on April 26, 2022 shows members of a R&D team in Nuclear Power Institute of China in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province. Fuel assemblies are the core of nuclear reactor. Engineers and researchers of Nuclear Power Institute of China have worked for years to develop China's own fuel assembly of commercial nuclear power plants, which was previously dominated by foreign technology. On Oct. 27, 2019, the first batch of 20 groups of CF3 fuel assemblies with independent intellectual property rights were loaded into nuclear power plant. The achievement marked that China has mastered the technology of high-performance nuclear fuel assembly and become one of the few countries owning independent intellectual property rights in nuclear fuel assembly design and manufacturing technology. It is worth mentioning that over 70 percent members of the R&D team are young people. On April 29, 2022, the drawings of the new generation CF4 simulation fuel assemb

Ruling bloc loses majority, DPJ becomes top party in Tokyo assemb

Ruling bloc loses majority, DPJ becomes top party in Tokyo assemb

TOKYO, Japan - At Liberal Democratic Party headquarter in Tokyo on July 12, Nobuteru Ishihara (L), an LDP lower house member and leader of the party's Tokyo chapter, and two LDP officials watch live TV broadcasting of vote counting of the election of the Tokyo metropolitan assembly where they lost its majority. (Kyodo)

Ruling bloc loses majority, DPJ becomes top party in Tokyo assemb

Ruling bloc loses majority, DPJ becomes top party in Tokyo assemb

TOKYO, Japan - Katsuya Okada, secretary-general of the Democratic Party of Japan, smiles during a press conference at party headquarters in Tokyo on July 12 as his party was about to win a majority in the Tokyo metropolitan assembly in the local election the same day. (Kyodo)