Zhang Zuoyi has been Director of the Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology

Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology

The Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology is an important energy research institute located in Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. The current Institute director is Zhang Zuoyi .-History:...

 (INET) at Tsinghua University

Tsinghua University

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 since 2001. In January 2005, he was an unsuccessful nominee in the Tech Innovator category for a Rave Award, awarded annually by Wired Magazine, along with Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Wales

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, Adam Curry

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, and Bill Healy. The winner was Mark Fletcher

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Zhang is one of the scientists dealing with the problem of powering China's growing economy, and has been involved particularly with the development of Very High Temperature Reactors (VHTR) to produce hydrogen

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 for fuel cell

Fuel cell

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s as well as research into technical issues involving nuclear power plants.

Zhang obtained his BS

Bachelor of Science

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 in the Thermal Engineering Department at Tsinghua University, then his MS

Master of Science

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 and PhD

PHD

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 at INET, going on to become a lecturer at INET. He was Humboldt Scholar at KFA Julich Research Center in Germany from 1992 to 1994, returning to INET as a professor.

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