Report: Chinese Military Exploiting DOE Nuclear Research Partnerships
From Breitbart News:
A report released Wednesday by the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party and the House Committee on Education and the Workforce warned that China is exploiting joint nuclear research partnerships financed by the Department of Energy (DOE) and some of the sensitive technology China stole has found its way into the hands of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
The report examined over 4,300 academic papers published between June 2023 and June 2024 produced by collaborations between Chinese researchers — about half of them affiliated with China’s military-industrial complex — and American scientists who received funding from the DOE.
Some of the Chinese collaborators turned out to be state-owned laboratories and university research projects that worked directly with the PLA, as documented by the Pentagon’s database of Chinese military contractors. Other Chinese research partners were entities that have been accused of human rights violations in China and cyberattacks against targets around the world.
The report faulted DOE for not doing enough to protect sensitive information from exploitation by the Chinese military, and for not consulting with the Pentagon and other U.S. government agencies to ensure Chinese partners for nuclear research projects were not security risks.
“These longstanding policy failures and inaction have left taxpayer-funded research vulnerable to exploitation by China’s defense research and industrial base and state-directed technology transfer activities,” the report concluded.
Report: Chinese Military Exploiting U.S. Nuclear Research Partnerships, John Hayward/Breitbart, Dec 17, 2025
Here is the report:
Containment Breach – The U.S. Department of Energy’s Failures in Research Security and Protecting Taxpayer-Funded Research from Foreign Exploitation, Dec 17, 2025
This warning is particularly relevant to Wyoming because TerraPower may have already compromised both Wyoming and the United States via it’s partnership with the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC):
- 2015: TerraPower – CNNC Sign Advanced Nuclear Technology MOU
- 2019: Whistleblower’s Complaint was filed Apr 29, 2019 that alleged TerraPower was planning to sell nuclear-related inventions and technologies to China (and Russia, India, etc.) that were developed via Department of Energy (DOE) grants that TerraPower had received. See USA/Toomer vs. TerraPower LLC/ Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC.
Update: Because Battelle is the contractor that operates Idaho National Laboratory (INL), this complaint directly implicates the INL. (The suit was originally filed in June 2016, but was dismissed in October 2018, by way of a legal manuever called the Granston Memo, which ultimately resulted in the government’s decision to decline to intervene. The plaintiffs did not lose the case – it was dismissed. More in-depth info here.) - 2021, June 2: WY Governor Gordon Press Release – Wyoming-TerraPower-PacifiCorp Agreement
- 2021, June 3: Biden White House issued a FACT SHEET: Executive Order Addressing the Threat from Securities Investments that Finance Certain Companies of the People’s Republic of China.
- 2021, June 3: Department of Defense/Pentagon issued a list of specific Entities Identified as Chinese Military Companies Operating in the United States. CNNC is on the list.
Bill Gates announces TerraPower – CNNC partnership, Dec 2, 2015:
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