China’s thorium molten salt reactor

[Rockstar]

A team of government researchers in China have unveiled the design for a commercial nuclear reactor that is expected to be the first in the world that does not need water for cooling, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on 19 July.

https://www.neimagazine.com/news/newschina-moves-forward-with-thorium-molten-salt-reactor-8919220

China may also consider building these reactors for countries that have signed up to the Belt and Road Initiative because, unlike uranium, thorium cannot be used to make nuclear weapons.


So maybe all the wars for oil and natural gas will one day end. What else is there we can we fight over?

[Jimbuna]

Well over here in the UK it is currently petrol/gas.

[Skybird]

What else is there we can we fight over?
To use or not to use electricity in general, maybe?:hmmm:

You now, these reactors will be rejected by many Greens simply for not being windmills or photovoltaic power. And in general, its the wrong social order. So lets continue the fight, no matter what.

See here: https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=250640

[Platapus]

Good for them. Pretty much any nation that has nuclear reactors has experimented with MSRs although not always using Thorium

[3catcircus]

To use or not to use electricity in general, maybe?:hmmm:

You now, these reactors will be rejected by many Greens simply for not being windmills or photovoltaic power. And in general, its the wrong social order. So lets continue the fight, no matter what.

See here: https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=250640

Yep - windmills and solar are *not* green technologies. Windmills end up killing birds and create noise pollution that drives away wildlife. Manufacture of solar cells is hideously polluting.

[vienna]

If China is actually successful in making the things viable, they will have further positioned them selves as the rising leader in beneficial technologies; with the work they have been doing in electric vehicles and alternative fuel systems, their ability to leverage influence in petroleum-poor nations in exchange for native resources, much as the US was able to leverage oil as a means of advancing their agenda in the past; we are quickly rendering ourselves to a marginal status on the world stage...




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