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I remember this thing. The tech is from America actually, decades ago. (Thorium). But they give up and china counties the work recent years
by yanhangyhy 1y ago
I remember this thing. The tech is from America actually, decades ago. (Thorium). But they give up and china counties the work recent years
- rmorey 1y ago"The tech is from America actually, decades ago... But they give up and china continues the work" Many such cases...
- yanhangyhy 1y agorare earth..
- embedding-shape 1y ago> The tech is from America actually, decades ago. (Thorium). I guess it depends on how you see it, but regardless, the people putting it to use today doesn't seem to be in the US. FWIW: > Thorium was discovered in 1828 by the Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius during his analysis of a new mineral [...] In 1824, after more deposits of the same mineral in Vest-Agder, Norway, were discovered [...] While thorium was discovered in 1828 its first application dates only from 1885, when Austrian chemist Carl Auer von Welsbach invented the gas mantle [...] Thorium was first observed to be radioactive in 1898, by the German chemist Gerhard Carl Schmidt For being an American discovery, it sure has a lot of European people involved in it :) (I've said it elsewhere but worth repeating; trying to track down where a technology/invention actually comes from is a fools errand, and there is always something earlier that led to today, so doesn't serve much purpose except nationalism it seems to me).
- conradev 1y agoThe tech we’re talking about is using Thorium for useful work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power#Hi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment