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China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ (www.scmp.com)

submitted 1 day ago by schizoidman@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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https://archive.is/2nQSh

It marks the first long-term, stable operation of the technology, putting China at the forefront of a global race to harness thorium – considered a safer and more abundant alternative to uranium – for nuclear power.

The experimental reactor, located in the Gobi Desert in China’s west, uses molten salt as the fuel carrier and coolant, and thorium – a radioactive element abundant in the Earth’s crust – as the fuel source. The reactor is reportedly designed to sustainably generate 2 megawatts of thermal power.

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[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

Thanks for the archive link, OP. Shit that site was cancerous

[–] primemagnus@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 hours ago

I’d like to thank the thorium. Great job guys! All around, great stuff!

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 14 points 12 hours ago

Good news, mankind should be pushing farther into this technologies.... so we finally have our first gen IV reactor? I honestly thought we would never reach them on time.

Plus Thorium rocks

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 44 points 16 hours ago (29 children)

Me opening the comment section knowing that its just gonna be a bunch of racism... like i get it i hate the chinese government as well but give credit to the millions of scientists and people who are actually trying to make life better on this earth. If something isnt american, it can still be nice to have.

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[–] eleitl@lemm.ee 48 points 23 hours ago (9 children)

Too bad we do not know which exactly thorium salt mixes they are using, what the materials facing the molten salt at high neutron fluxes are and how they fare long term, whether they use on-site constant or batched fuel reprocessing, whether they kickstarted the reactor with enrichened uranium or reactor-grade plutonium waste and other such questions.

US experiments were broken off because of materials corrosion problem.

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

US experiments were broken off because it gives no excuse to attain materials for nuclear weapons. Same excuse everyone else use.

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