the future,, page-24

Helium IS rare and Mt Kitty one of the reasons i bought into this stock ... back when Moses was a boy.

party balloons aside the Chinese are slated to build a series of helium cooled nuclear reactors ...


China has licensed the German technology[citation needed] and is actively developing a pebble bed reactor for power generation.[20] The 10 megawatt prototype is called the HTR-10. It is a conventional helium-cooled, helium-turbine design. The program is at Tsinghua University in Beijing. The first 250-MW plant is scheduled to begin construction in 2009 and commissioning in 2013.[21] There are firm plans for thirty such plants by 2020 (6 gigawatts) . By 2050, China plans to deploy as much as 300 gigawatts of reactors of which PBMRs will be a major component. If PBMRs are successful, there may be a substantial number of reactors deployed. This may be the largest planned nuclear power deployment in history.

source wikipedia

Drilling Mt Kitty has become a fetish of mine!