Re:China Invests Big in Clean and Cheap Energy from Thorium
by gnusci on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @07:56PM
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Well, it seems if a MSR will be built, it will be in China
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602051/fail-safe-nuclear-...
Re:China Invests Big in Clean and Cheap Energy from Thorium
by tim333 on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @02:51PM
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Something here: 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)
Re:China Invests Big in Clean and Cheap Energy from Thorium
by philipkglass on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @03:10PM
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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.
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....
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.