Death of nuclear physicist Xu Hongjie came just weeks before the project he led achieved a breakthrough in fourth-generation nuclear power.

Xu Hongjie, a nuclear physicist and pioneer of China’s thorium reactor programme, who has died at the age of 70, remained engaged and involved in his field until his last moments, and just weeks before a breakthrough in a project he had led. The 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…

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