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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 7 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] primemagnus@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 15 points 13 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 45 points 17 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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[–] Gemeinagent@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 13 hours ago (8 children)

Uh, what about the THTR-300 that operated at 300MW capacity from 1987 to 1989?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/THTR-300

It was a total failure, though. Not quite Chernobyl, but it was plagued by incidents.

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