China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’

a year ago by schizoidman to c/technology

Team working on project reportedly achieves milestone by completing fuel reloading while experimental molten salt reactor was running.

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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WhatSay 1 point a year ago

Scientific advances from China need to have outside confirmation. Because, propaganda and all that

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MaggiWuerze 4 points a year ago

They all do. It's called peer review

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Zapados 5 points a year ago

Huge amounts are found to be faked or inaccurate. It’s a big issue in academia and has been for decades now.

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