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[–] gummybootpiloot 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Things that don't exist yet aren't a solution for problems we have now.

It's not like we could now just build a thorium reactor that makes economic sense without decades of serious prototyping. And by that time we might have found that there are more pbolems with it than we thought.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

If the TMSR-LF1 proves successful, China plans to build a reactor with a capacity of 373 MWt by 2030.

Not sure which unit MWt is. Anyway, let's see how far they are in 7 years.

[–] gummybootpiloot 1 points 1 year ago

Strange source aside I've been hearing were on the edge of a breakthrough for thorium reactors and cold fusion for 40 years now.

If China had it working already then we would have heard it a lot louder from them.