China plans 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 — revealed in a since-deleted report posted on the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics website.
  • suoko
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    17 days ago

    because TMSRs don’t require water, they could also be built underground and in arid areas.

    That’s crazy “cool”

  • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    17 days ago

    I see so much negative press about pretty much anything China does, this is quite exciting (to be fair, they do a lot of concerning stuff!)