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China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ (www.scmp.com)
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https://archive.is/2nQSh

It marks the first long-term, stable operation of the technology, putting China at the forefront of a global race to harness thorium – considered a safer and more abundant alternative to uranium – for nuclear power.

The experimental reactor, located in the Gobi Desert in China’s west, uses molten salt as the fuel carrier and coolant, and thorium – a radioactive element abundant in the Earth’s crust – as the fuel source. The reactor is reportedly designed to sustainably generate 2 megawatts of thermal power.

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[–] WhatSay@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Scientific advances from China need to have outside confirmation. Because, propaganda and all that

[–] notaviking@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I cannot speak for this area of science, but in my field China's research papers, for example rock mass failure response to complex stress states, are like a god send, really quality work. This is my opinion in my field but if I had to extrapolate... Remember the Soviets with all their propaganda had amazing scientists

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

They're also crushing it in the ML space. Half the good AI papers are written in Chinese; one of the startups I worked at had the luxury of hiring a Chinese speaking AI researcher who could read them for us

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee -2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] blixtuwu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yes, there were heavy mistakes made, from making stupid decisions to giving positions of power to people who should had been fired. But this happened everywhere, for example the big use of lobotomies to the red scare that caused many scientist like Oppenheimer to get in trouble with the US goverment.

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

Yes, I remember when Oppenheimer got in trouble, which resulted in all the decent doctors in the country being rounded up and executed based on lies.

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

They all do. It's called peer review

[–] Zapados@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago

Huge amounts are found to be faked or inaccurate. It’s a big issue in academia and has been for decades now.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Good thing only Our Enemies use propoganda

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

totally unrelated but did you hear Tesla's are at MOST two years away from breaking 1000km range? well they were in 2015. so they'll definitely have a thousand km range in 2017. I guess we need to see if time really is cyclical and this is for the next cycle's 2017