{"id":139736,"date":"2025-11-04T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=139736"},"modified":"2025-11-04T12:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T12:00:16","slug":"lead-scientist-of-chinas-thorium-reactor-project-died-working-on-the-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=139736","title":{"rendered":"Lead scientist of China\u2019s thorium reactor project died working on the computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostXu Hongjie, a nuclear physicist and pioneer of China\u2019s thorium reactor programme, remained engaged and involved in his field until his death at the age of 70, just weeks before a breakthrough in a project he had led.<br \/>\nThe former director of the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) died in Shanghai on September 14, according to an obituary posted by the institute a day after his death; however, the details of his death were not known until the Science and Technology Daily published a&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3331484\/lead-scientist-chinas-thorium-reactor-project-died-working-computer?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostXu Hongjie, a nuclear physicist and pioneer of China\u2019s thorium reactor programme, remained engaged and involved in his field until his death at the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139736"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}