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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 1 week ago (9 children)

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

[–] notaviking@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (4 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 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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

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