China to fire up prototype thorium molten salt reactor in Sept. Commercial by 2030.

[gary]

In a 4 April 2021 three minute read article (https://spectrum.ieee.org/china-closing-in-on-thorium-nuclear-reactor) at the The Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Spectrum magazine web site, Prachi
Pratel reports on the announcement out of China that they are hoping to
have a prototype commercial molten sodium reactor (MSR) using thorium
as fuel undergoing testing next month (September 2021).

They then hope to build multiple commercial reactors by 2030.



Article here :-
https://spectrum.ieee.org/china-closing-in-on-thorium-nuclear-reactor

Another article at Live Science with additional background on the technology :-
https://www.livescience.com/china-creates-new-thorium-reactor.html

[RB]

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[multiweb]

If its water usage is ideal for arid regions that would be the ticket for us.

[DarkArts]

Other than construction cost, operating cost, lack of industrial base, length of time to build it and supporting services, use of Chinese technology in critical infrastructure and the absence of need for large, centralised power generators in arid regions of Australia.

[multiweb]

The energy demand is here wherever you live in oz and with the whole world busting our balls to go carbon neutral that looks green enough to me and more reliable than renewables. Nuclear energy in some sort fusion or fission is our way out once we're past the stigma.

[Sunfish]

Very interesting. Thanks Gary. Interesting that some of the technology comes from work in concentrated solar molten salts. The kind of pilot project being conducted here in Aus.

[Sunfish]

Would this mean the Chinese would not need so much of our uranium?