‘No quick wins’: China has the world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor
Team working on project reportedly achieves milestone by completing fuel reloading while experimental molten salt reactor was running.
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Cool, but I am more excited about the French maintaining a fusion reaction for over twenty minutes.
China's way ahead there as well https://charmingscience.com/chinas-artificial-sun-sets-nuclear-fusion-record-runs-1006-seconds-at-180-millionf/
They maintained it, but I think it was energy negative.
Maintaining fusion reaction is not news. The main issue right now is material science to make reactors last and be efficient at the same time. Because well known materials today either last but poison the reaction, or fade away quickly.
Maintaining fusion reaction is a very recent news and it's solly to claim otherwise.
yeah the amount of time has really been climbing fast an that to me is what is huge. Went from seconds to minutes and I think measuring in hours is not far away.
