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China Is Home to First Small Modular Nuclear Reactor
- philipkglass 5y agoChina has announced initial operation of the world's first small modular reactor, a HTR-PM [1] gas cooled reactor at Shidao Bay [2] [3]. This is the original announcement in Chinese: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/SRFkRR7iKyPseU68SLmDOQ https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/SRFkRR7iKyPseU68SLmDOQ The key part of the announcement, translated: On December 20, the No. 1 reactor of the demonstration project of the National Science and Technology Major Project Shidao Bay High-temperature Gas-cooled Reactor Nuclear Power Plant completed the initial load operation test evaluation of the generator and was successfully connected to the grid for the first time. This marks the world's first spherical-bed modular high-temperature gas-cooled reactor with the characteristics of the fourth generation of advanced nuclear energy systems. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTR-PM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTR-PM [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shidao_Bay_Nuclear_Power_Plant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shidao_Bay_Nuclear_Power_Plant [3] https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/CountryStatistics/ReactorDetails.aspx?current=957 https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/CountryStatistics/ReactorDetails....
- ameminator 5y agoMan, if it wasn't obvious before that the Chinese society is ascendant, stories like this one and the breakthrough in fusion (discussed today on the front page) really show it. It's a shame that we don't push the edge like we used to in North America, for whatever numerous reasons there are.