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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.
There are certainly levels of bias and a github FAQ designed solely to prove a point filled with unsubstantiated X links definetly seems pointed
No one is pretending it isn’t. But the fact that it is pointed doesn’t automatically make it false. You are rejecting sources on little more than vibes here.
As did the main poster. Except they put in the effort to attach a convoluted straw man. Yes they did link a bad dude to one source within a source amongst many other sources mind you, but that’s not really conclusive.
I could have gone on a rant about how their source used X links which is connected to a know Nazi (Musk) but that’s not really related to the evidence at all.
Almost all pieces ever written about the “Uyghur genocide” go back to this one “bad dude” Adrian Zenz if you follow the chain of sources back to their origins. And both of the articles you liked have him as source, not just one.
The reason it’s so bad is because Adrian Zenz isn’t merely biased, he’s a known liar. He’s a fraud who pretends to be an expert on China despite not speaking a single word of any of the languages just because he’s been to China a single time over 10 years ago. He is being referenced despite all that by CIA financed medias (such as the BBC via USAID) because his lies are exactly the kind of things western bourgeois want us to think about China.
Your comparing Dessalines pointing out that your sources cite Zenz to you pointing out that some of his links go to X is misguided at best, Musk isn’t the author of what is written on these X posts, Zenz is the author of the lies your sources tells.