Good for them! The U.S. has been trying to perfect thorium reactors for years and has supposedly been unable to. I say 'supposedly' because the nuclear industry may have been trying to block thorium reactors. On 4/21/2025 9:21 AM, someone wrote: Pretty interesting. . --
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From: James Morikone Date:
On Saturday, April 19th, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Subject: First Thorium Reactor
To: James Morikone China has world's first thorium reactor in landmark for clean nuclear energy >
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2540739/china-has-worlds-first-thorium-reactor-in-landmark-for-clean-nuclear-energy > China has activated the world's only operational thorium molten salt reactor, marking a global breakthrough in clean nuclear energy using declassified United States research. > Chinese scientists reloaded fuel into the working reactor in the Gobi Desert without halting operations, a feat revealed during a closed-door meeting at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on April 8, according to Guangming Daily. ... Thorium is seen by experts as a safer, more abundant alternative to uranium. It produces less long-lived radioactive waste and carries a lower risk of weaponisation. > Combined with molten salt reactor design--first tested by US scientists in the 1960s--this technology operates at atmospheric pressure and is engineered to self-limit overheating. ...
Good for them! The U.S. has been trying to perfect thorium reactors for years and has supposedly been unable to. I say 'supposedly' because the nuclear industry may have been trying to block thorium reactors. On 4/21/2025 9:21 AM, someone wrote: Pretty interesting. . --
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From: James Morikone Date: On Saturday, April 19th, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Subject: First Thorium Reactor
To: James Morikone China has world's first thorium reactor in landmark for clean nuclear energy >
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2540739/china-has-worlds-first-thorium-reactor-in-landmark-for-clean-nuclear-energy > China has activated the world's only operational thorium molten salt reactor, marking a global breakthrough in clean nuclear energy using declassified United States research. > Chinese scientists reloaded fuel into the working reactor in the Gobi Desert without halting operations, a feat revealed during a closed-door meeting at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on April 8, according to Guangming Daily. ... Thorium is seen by experts as a safer, more abundant alternative to uranium. It produces less long-lived radioactive waste and carries a lower risk of weaponisation. > Combined with molten salt reactor design--first tested by US scientists in the 1960s--this technology operates at atmospheric pressure and is engineered to self-limit overheating. ...
Good for them! The U.S. has been trying to perfect thorium reactors for years and has supposedly been unable to. I say 'supposedly' because the nuclear industry may have been trying to block thorium reactors. On 4/21/2025 9:21 AM, wrote: Pretty interesting. . --
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From: James Morikone Date: On Saturday, April 19th, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Subject: First Thorium Reactor
To: James Morikone China has world's first thorium reactor in landmark for clean nuclear energy >
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2540739/china-has-worlds-first-thorium-reactor-in-landmark-for-clean-nuclear-energy > China has activated the world's only operational thorium molten salt reactor, marking a global breakthrough in clean nuclear energy using declassified United States research. > Chinese scientists reloaded fuel into the working reactor in the Gobi Desert without halting operations, a feat revealed during a closed-door meeting at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on April 8, according to Guangming Daily. ... Thorium is seen by experts as a safer, more abundant alternative to uranium. It produces less long-lived radioactive waste and carries a lower risk of weaponisation. > Combined with molten salt reactor design--first tested by US scientists in the 1960s--this technology operates at atmospheric pressure and is engineered to self-limit overheating. ...
