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AFAICT this article offers no dates, no numbers, and no primary sources. China did announce a thorium research program back in 2011, and continues to publish re

AFAICT this article offers no dates, no numbers, and no primary sources. China did announce a thorium research program back in 2011, and continues to publish research, but I don't see any notable recent developments reported on other sites. The IAEA does not currently list any reactors matching this description in operation or under construction in China: https://pris.iaea.org/pris/CountryStatistics/CountryDetails.aspx?current=CN https://pris.iaea.org/pris/CountryStatistics/CountryDetails.... World Nuclear News does not have any recent stories about Chinese thorium reactors. Is this article just a rehash of old news? Or has a Chinese thorium reactor achieved criticality recently? Videos of simulations and 3D renderings are a dime a dozen. New reactor concepts are interesting only when someone operates real hardware. China can do so but there's nothing in this article that makes me think it has just done so.

gnusci 8y ago
Well, it seems if a MSR will be built, it will be in China https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602051/fail-safe-nuclear-power/ https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602051/fail-safe-nuclear-...
noobermin 8y ago
Perhaps it's a slow...news(?) day at "thoriumenergyworld.com"
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tim333 8y ago
Something here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/chinese-government-invest-billions-molten-salt-reactor-deng/ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/chinese-government-invest-bil... >[late 2017] China Academy of Sciences and the government of Gansu Province signed a co-operation agreement to work together on China’s Thorium Molten Salt Reactor (TMSR) project and to have a demonstration or research reactor built in Gansu Province by 2020. >The total investment was planed to be 22 billion CNY (3 billion USD)
- philipkglass 8y ago
  Right, some other documents I found indicated that there would be a research reactor scheduled for 2020. But the documents I found about it were from before 2018. I couldn't understand why this story was published in August 2018. There doesn't appear to be anything new happening right now. The next interesting development will be when the research reactor actually starts up, hopefully in 2020.

gnusci 8y ago

Well, it seems if a MSR will be built, it will be in China https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602051/fail-safe-nuclear-power/ https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602051/fail-safe-nuclear-...

noobermin 8y ago

Perhaps it's a slow...news(?) day at "thoriumenergyworld.com"

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tim333 8y ago

Something here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/chinese-government-invest-billions-molten-salt-reactor-deng/ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/chinese-government-invest-bil... >[late 2017] China Academy of Sciences and the government of Gansu Province signed a co-operation agreement to work together on China’s Thorium Molten Salt Reactor (TMSR) project and to have a demonstration or research reactor built in Gansu Province by 2020. >The total investment was planed to be 22 billion CNY (3 billion USD)

philipkglass 8y ago
Right, some other documents I found indicated that there would be a research reactor scheduled for 2020. But the documents I found about it were from before 2018. I couldn't understand why this story was published in August 2018. There doesn't appear to be anything new happening right now. The next interesting development will be when the research reactor actually starts up, hopefully in 2020.