According to Guangming Daily, the experimental unit is located in the Gobi Desert and generates 2 megawatts of thermal power.
China fires up the world's first thorium-fueled nuclear reactor, a 2 megawatt research reactor located in the Gobi Desert cooled and fueled by molten salt futurism.com/china-thoriu ... Thorium is much more abundant than uranium & thorium fueled reactors are poor choice for making an illicit weapon
-- Jesse D. Jenkins (@jessedjenkins.com) April 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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China to build first-ever thorium molten salt nuclear power station in Gobi Desert (September 2024)
www.abc.net.au
... In short:
China is planning to build the world's first-ever nuclear power station using molten salt as the fuel carrier and coolant, and thorium as a fuel source.
Experts say the reactors are "inherently safer" than traditional nuclear reactors and have other advantages, but scientists have long struggled with challenges such as the corrosive nature of the superheated radioactive salts.
What's next?
Construction on the research facility is due to start next year with operation expected in 2030, followed by full-scale production. ...
@#1 ... #1 It's running and they just showed it can be refueled while running. ...
If so, ... amazing.
Here's what I found ...
China Just Powered Up the World's First Thorium Reactor -- and Reloaded It Mid-Run
www.zmescience.com
... They used declassified US documents to develop the technology.
China just pulled off a feat no nation has managed before: it kept a nuclear reactor running while swapping out its radioactive fuel. That reactor, quietly humming away in the Gobi Desert, isn't powered by uranium. It runs on thorium -- a silvery metal that offers safer, cleaner, and more abundant nuclear energy with far less waste and no bomb-making potential.
This marks the first time anyone has successfully reloaded fuel in an operational thorium molten salt reactor (MSR) without shutting it down. And it puts China ahead in a race that, until recently, most countries didn't even know had restarted. ...
@#8 ... More tariffs should take care of the problem. ...
Yeah, separate the US from the rest of the world.
Is there hope?
Well, there's this ...
Scott Bessent's gentler message: America First' does not mean America alone'
www.marketwatch.com
Are Sec Bessent's opinions now presiding over Mr Navarro's opinions on tariffs?
But to the point of Sec Bessent's message.
When I managed a technology team back in the day, I used to say at the start of each meeting, ~none of us is as smart as all of us.~
That seems to be something that Pres Trump has failed to grasp in his ~I am the smartest, most awesome person~ mantra.
And that failure to grasp that may be his downfall.
But, who knows?
America spent the first two decades of the 21st century fighting wars in faraway Iraq and Afghanistan wasting trillions of dollars and costing thousands of lives, courtesy of G. W. Bush. Meanwhile in the same first two decades China quietly and steadily used her resources on R&D, espionage, and industrialization. In addition to this thorium reactor, Beijing has a reusable hypersonic space plane, super AI computer, and stealth jet fighters. Case in point: this month the Trumpf junta wasted another billion dollars of taxpayer money bombing shoeless and starving Houthis in Yemen on behalf of Benjamin Netanyahu while cutting DOD R&D funding: www.graphicnews.com
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