China Starts Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor Project

greg_barton writes "The Energy From Thorium blog reports, 'The People's Republic of China has initiated a research and development project in thorium molten-salt reactor technology. It was announced in the Chinese Academy of Sciences annual conference on Tuesday, January 25.' The liquid-fluoride thorium reactor is an alternative reactor design that 1) burns existing nuclear waste, 2) uses abundant thorium as a base fuel, 3) produces far less toxic, shorter-lived waste than existing designs, and 4) can be mass produced, run unattended for years, and installed underground for safety."

Gentlemen...

[l0ungeb0y]

We now face a Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor gap.
However Jimmy from Cub Scout Den 561 assures us that our nation's Sugar Crystal Nucleation Reactors are operating at optimal conditions.

Re:Initiated.

[hedwards]

You mean they've initiated plans to steal most of the necessary designs from somebody else then plug whatever the remaining holes are.

Don't worry.

[pizzach]

The US can probably just install a virus into their computers to make the plants worthless. The US might be labeled as terrorists for doing something so dangerous, but it is a small price to pay to hold the temporary status quo.

Re:Where we should have been years ago already

[zevans]

Indeed it is off-topic. We appear to have a bug in a moderator who has marked it "informative." There's yer problem.

If you don't know the difference between Na &

[MarkusQ]

If you don't know the difference between sodium metal and salt, I'd advise you to be very careful when cooking, as well as when posting.

-- MarkusQ