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China achieves first-ever thorium to uranium nuclear fuel conversion
- PaulHoule 11mo agoNote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment used LiF-BeF2-ZrF4-UF4 fuel that had no actual Thorium in it so it did not produce any U233.
- metabagel 11mo agoTitle is misleading. "China achieves thorium-uranium nuclear fuel conversion in molten-salt reactor" https://english.news.cn/20251101/5fd1cf3dab394e9eb6dc69777ed1577d/c.html https://english.news.cn/20251101/5fd1cf3dab394e9eb6dc69777ed...