Source: China – South China Morning PostChina is building a mega science infrastructure that could add fuel to the global maritime power race: a floating artificial island engineered to withstand nuclear blasts.
This 78,000-tonne, semi-submersible twin-hull platform is world’s first mobile, self-sustaining artificial island.
With a displacement rivalling the People’s Liberation Army Navy’s new Fujian aircraft carrier and the capacity to house 238 occupants for four months without resupply, the facility will be able to project…Read More