The article popped up a login-wall but I was able to bypass it with a quick refresh and switch to Reader Mode. It's a short article: Chinese scientists have ac

The article popped up a login-wall but I was able to bypass it with a quick refresh and switch to Reader Mode. It's a short article: Chinese scientists have achieved a milestone in clean energy technology by successfully adding fresh fuel to an operational thorium molten salt reactor, according to state media reports. ... The development was announced by the project’s chief scientist, Xu Hongjie, during a closed-door meeting at the Chinese Academy of Sciences on April 8, the official Guangming Daily reported on Friday. The experimental reactor, located in the Gobi Desert in China’s west, uses molten salt as the fuel carrier and coolant, and thorium – a radioactive element abundant in the Earth’s crust – as the fuel source. The reactor is reportedly designed to sustainably generate 2 megawatts of thermal power. ... A reactor with a thermal power output of 2 megawatts is a long way from a commercial power reactor. A modern Chinese power reactor has a thermal output of over 3000 megawatts (over 1000 megawatts electrical output): https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/CountryStatistics/ReactorDetails.aspx?current=1083 https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/CountryStatistics/ReactorDetails.... 2 megawatts is actually smaller than the original molten salt reactor experiment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which had a 7.4 MWth output: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment Still, it's good to see another country reviving experiments with this technology.