Posted on 07/31/2024 12:25:36 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
The Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics says China will build the world’s first large-scale molten-salt-cooled thorium reactor in the Gobi Desert next year, reports the South China Morning Post. China’s National Nuclear Safety Administration approved the design last year.
The 60MW reactor is expected to be complete in 2029.
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Can any American companies get a part of building associated infrastructure?
China laughs at how the Dims restrain our energy production.
While the globalists suck on windmills
In 4-5 years China will build a new nuclear reactor, this would over 10 years in America if it ever got started in the first place which in today’s world is not a sure thing.
Do not want.
Want several dozen reactors here. Leverage the ending of the Chevron deference to clear the bureaucrats out of the way.
china is showing the sometimes advantage of top-down, centrally-planned governments and monarchies.
One might be tempted to say its an advantage over “free market” and “republican-style government” ruled-countries
But the present neo-marxist cabal in DC is definitely not either of those things.
Wow
When it explodes ....
It could turn the whole Gobi Desert into a wasteland!
From 2013
U.S. partners with China on new nuclear
Quiet collaboration on thorium molten salt, a safer alternative to uranium. DOE assistant energy secretary Peter Lyons co-chairs it with son of former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin. Who benefits?
https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-partners-with-china-on-new-nuclear/?tag=search-river
China plans 60MW thorium reactor in Gobi Desert by 2029
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By the same date, the US will have completely covered the country in windmills and solar panels, producing 50% less power than today.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
the chinese got their start with thorium reactors about 2011 when a US researcher uploaded all the thorium reactor specifications and work that was accomplished in the 1970’s before they were shut down.
the chinese immediately downloaded the old US thorium project details and went to work. XI was a big fan of thorium right at the start.
About 2 years later the chinese started working on fusion from nothing. I don’t know from what US plans their work started. But they went from zero to being about par with the USA in fusion work in 10 years.
If you can’t covertly make nuclear weapons materials from the output, is it even worth building?
You can UNMAKE nuclear weapons material with a liquid metal thorium reactor. I don’t think such reactors can blow up, at least not in a nuclear sense.
It’s a 60 MW unit. Typical nuclear power plants are about 1 GW = 1000 MW. This is some sort of experiment, a science project. Still, I wish we were doing this kind of work.
Must be nice not to have the EPA standing in the way of everything.
Serious question though. Where will they get the water? Or, more likely, the author just throws out “Gobi Desert” because he is lazy.
Having worked, briefly, in China I can assure you anyone who is designing and supervising the construction is a white western engineer. Probably French since they are experts for nuclear power.
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