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Re:China Says It's Closing in on Thorium Nuclear Reactor by jdavis703 on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @06:36PM (#28067343)
They say they’re 9 years away. That’s a long enough date that I’d be skeptical of any government that was giving a prediction for nearly a decade out.
Re:China Says It's Closing in on Thorium Nuclear Reactor by zepto on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @10:54PM (#28069264)
That’s far enough away to be essentially meaningless because nobody will remember the claim.
Re:China Says It's Closing in on Thorium Nuclear Reactor by bell-cot on Friday August 06, 2021 @05:19AM (#28084891)
This. Is there any organization on earth - government, corporation, whatever - with even a mediocre track record for commercial-scale deployment of (fairly) radical new nuclear power technologies?