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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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[–] opossumo@lemmings.world 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

What are you on about?

Nearly every upvoted comment is in praise of this. Only 2 comments warn caution about Chinese data.

Why do people need to lie and pretend China is this big victim being picked on.

You would never write a paragraph like that in defense of the amount of anti-US sentiment on Lemmy, so it’s not like you actually care about being fair to nations. Posts like yours reek of nothing more than propaganda.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 6 points 3 days ago

Posts like yours reek of nothing more than propaganda.

Smells more like bootlicking to me.

[–] Binette@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 days ago (3 children)

scrolled past and saw one for almost every subthread.

Post about western achievements are often taken as granted (except maybe curing cancer), while eastern ones are scrutinised to the smallest of details.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 6 points 3 days ago

Show me any post about any technological advance that doesn't have critical comments in the thread.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago

Not Eastern ones, Chinese specifically. Japanese or Korean science is generally trusted, but dictatorships have a tendency of making shit up to look better. We'll believe it when we see it.

China has plenty of achievements, but also plenty of bullshit vaporware. We'll see which one this is.

[–] HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You don't suppose there might be reason people don't trust the news coming from a country with no freedom of speech or press?

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 days ago

Yeah yeah, "you can't believe it until Rupert Murdoch and Elon Musk confirm it"