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. ...

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. ...

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?