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Re:Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy by jpgvm on Thursday July 07, 2022 @05:29PM (#32019704)
The most interesting project is the Chinese HTR-PM[1] which is a small ~250MW design that is specifically engineered to be run in the Chinese interior where it will displace coal power plants.

It lacks the more advanced passive safety of molten-salt designs but it's significantly more advanced than reactors being built anywhere else in the world and is a natural stepping stone to molten salt to replace the helium coolant at some stage.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTR-PM

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Re:Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy by philipkglass on Thursday July 07, 2022 @05:32PM (#32019752)
I think that the HTR-PM is interesting too. I submitted a story about it 6 months ago, but it didn't get a lot of traction here:

"China Is Home to First Small Modular Nuclear Reactor"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29804547

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