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Chinese scientists have achieved a milestone in clean energy technology by successfully adding fresh fuel to an operational thorium molten salt reactor, according to state media reports.
It marks the first long-term, stable operation of the technology, putting China at the forefront of a global race to harness thorium – considered a safer and more abundant alternative to uranium – for nuclear power.
The development was announced by the project’s chief scientist, Xu Hongjie, during a closed-door meeting at the Chinese Academy of Sciences on April 8, the official Guangming Daily reported on Friday.
The experimental reactor, located in the Gobi Desert in China’s west, uses molten salt as the fuel carrier and coolant, and thorium – a radioactive element abundant in the Earth’s crust – as the fuel source. The reactor is reportedly designed to sustainably generate 2 megawatts of thermal power.
Some experts see the technology as the next energy revolution and claim that just one thorium-rich mine in Inner Mongolia could – theoretically – meet China’s energy needs for tens of thousands of years, while producing minimal radioactive waste.
A much bigger thorium molten salt reactor is already being built in China and is slated to achieve criticality by 2030. That research reactor is designed to produce 10 megawatts of electricity.
China’s state-owned shipbuilding industry has also unveiled a design for thorium-powered container ships that could potentially achieve emission-free maritime transport.
Meanwhile, US efforts to revive the development of a molten salt reactor remain on paper, despite bipartisan congressional support and Department of Energy initiatives.
China really is living in the future. Building new space stations, high speed rail and ever cheaper, cleaner energy.
Meanwhile , a single US state is approaching its third decade of trying to build a single line of high speed rail, and our federal politics consist of watching our most ancient boomers build a Gestapo while they are actively dying of old age.
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Source for China attacking ethnic minorities? Ideally not the Adrian Zenz, a german antisemitic evangelical who doesn’t speak mandarin, and who works for the US government.
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The sources for your top article, are Zenz (linked in most of the linked BBC articles) like this one, the Australian strategic policy institute, a defense-industry war-hawk think tank in australia, and the xinjiang police files, based on intentionally mistranslated docs given to the NYT.
The source for the 2nd article is HRW, another CIA cutout, the same police files with more zenz references, and some norweigan site that appears to just be a wordpress blog with zero sources.
More sources debunking this nonsense here.
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Its just a bunch of links to news articles, just like you posted. Only mine don’t reference anti-semites who work for the US state department, western state media in a desperate attempt to show that their enemies kill as many muslims as they do (including right now I might add), and reactionary east-turkistan uyghur separatists.
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You just believe everthing the racist hegemon who’s been bombing muslim countries for decades (and continues to do so to this day) tells you, without looking past the surface.
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I’ve gone into your sources, you clearly haven’t looked past the surface.
The BBC isn’t much more than a tabloid, and its a propaganda arm run by the british state. Like that time they got caught doctoring an image from a vlogger in China to make it look depressing, then quietly reverted their change.
You claim to be “anti-state”, so you just uncritically gobble up everything british state media tells you about their enemies?
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I went through that article also. They too link zenz and east turkistan separatists one article behind.
this is what sniffing glue does to your brain kids