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Scientists in China are about to turn on for the first time an experimental reactor that's believed by some to be the Holy Grail of nuclear energy — safer, cheaper and with less potential for weaponisation.
Construction on the thorium-based molten salt reactor was expected to be finished this month with the first tests to begin as early as September, according to a statement from the Gansu provincial government.
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China Set to Begin First Trials of Thorium Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor
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(Score: 2, Disagree) by HiThere on Monday August 30 2021, @01:46PM
Yes, some preliminary tests have been done, but they haven't been done on any current design. So the approach is guaranteed to have certain capabilities, but it's not guaranteed what the costs will be, or whether it can be done at scale, or...well, lots of things. Many designs work fine in the lab, but fail on even pilot projects. In some fields it's well over half of the designs that fail, I don't know about nuclear reactors.
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