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Chinese molten salt reactor achieves conversion of thorium-uranium fueloilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/The-Worlds-First-Thorium-Molten-Salt-Reactor.html
267 sats \ 4 comments \ @brent 22 Nov science
China seems to be kicking ass in the science & technology race. This achievement is a keystone in securing their energy future.
  • China’s experimental thorium molten salt reactor has reportedly achieved sustained thorium-to-uranium fuel conversion, marking a major scientific first.
  • The breakthrough could ease China’s dependence on Russian-enriched uranium and accelerate its rise as the world’s dominant nuclear power.
  • With thorium abundant domestically, the technology could transform China’s long-term energy security and global nuclear influence.
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107 sats \ 3 replies \ @OT 23 Nov
Personally I'd remain skeptical about all the new technological breakthroughs coming out of China. The CCP have been using soft power to buy into mainstream media and control narrative.
I remain skeptical for a couple of reasons. Why all of a sudden all these new tech breakthroughs happen when Trump came into power. China is well know for reverse engineering goods but not for innovation.
There's a quote that I'll probably mess up from The Art of War. "When weak, appear strong."
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @anon 23 Nov
It isn’t new, they’ve been investing heavily in science and technology for decades, and these gains build on each other. We don’t need to trust their promises, because they publish in peer reviewed journals that are open to the world.
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18 sats \ 1 reply \ @OT 23 Nov
The Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reports that the breakthrough, which took place at an experimental reactor out in the Gobi Desert, is “poised to reshape the future of clean sustainable nuclear energy.”
I don't have a dog in this fight and I could be wrong. I will say that peer reviewed papers from universities also don't convince me due to similar reasons. Nobody reads this stuff and also Universities have also been bought out by CCP soft power.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @brent OP 23 Nov
If you think nobody reads journals like Nature, and other scientific stalwarts (which are independent of particular academic institutions), then you really have no idea how modern science works. Who reads them? Scientists read them! Science is an international, open, collaborative effort in pursuit of new knowledge. Researchers publish their work in open journals, after a long process of rigorous review from other researchers in the field. They are published in a way that provides enough information for other researchers to reproduce, and verify (or fail to verify) the work. Chinese researchers are now the largest contributors to public science, and have been for years.
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