Chinese scientists have achieved a milestone in clean energy technology by successfully adding fresh fuel to an operational thorium molten salt reactor, according to state media reports.
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 development was announced by the project’s chief scientist, Xu Hongjie, during a closed-door meeting at the Chinese Academy of Sciences on April 8, the official Guangming Daily reported on Friday.
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.
Some experts see the technology as the next energy revolution and claim that just one thorium-rich mine in Inner Mongolia could – theoretically – meet China’s energy needs for tens of thousands of years, while producing minimal radioactive waste.
A much bigger thorium molten salt reactor is already being built in China and is slated to achieve criticality by 2030. That research reactor is designed to produce 10 megawatts of electricity.
China’s state-owned shipbuilding industry has also unveiled a design for thorium-powered container ships that could potentially achieve emission-free maritime transport.
Meanwhile, US efforts to revive the development of a molten salt reactor remain on paper, despite bipartisan congressional support and Department of Energy initiatives.
Source for China attacking ethnic minorities? Ideally not the Adrian Zenz, a german antisemitic evangelical who doesn’t speak mandarin, and who works for the US government.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-22278037
Does the BBC work? They present both China’s take and several other nations.
And for a non-western view how about Aljazeera.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/18/china-accused-of-erasing-religion-culture-from-uighur-village-names
I’m not into state worship, pretty much every state in the modern world has committed crimes against the people. It’s silly to try to place any nation on a pedestal
You just believe everthing the racist hegemon who’s been bombing muslim countries for decades (and continues to do so to this day) tells you, without looking past the surface.
LMAO, okay bud whatever you need to tell yourself to reject the evidence in front of you
I’ve gone into your sources, you clearly haven’t looked past the surface.
The BBC isn’t much more than a tabloid, and its a propaganda arm run by the british state. Like that time they got caught doctoring an image from a vlogger in China to make it look depressing, then quietly reverted their change.
You claim to be “anti-state”, so you just uncritically gobble up everything british state media tells you about their enemies?
Ignore the other source harder, but you’ve made it abundantly clear that no source will be good enough. We can spend all day poking holes, but all that will accomplish is you continuing to ignore an ongoing crisis so you can continue worshipping a state.
China being bad doesn’t make the US good and the opposite is true. Both can be bad for their own reasons
I went through that article also. They too link zenz and east turkistan separatists one article behind.
The source for your top article, are Zenz (linked in most of the linked BBC articles like this one, the Australian strategic policy institute, a defense-industry war-hawk think tank in australia, and the xinjiang police files, based on intentionally mistranslated docs given to the NYT.
The source for the 2nd article is HRW, another CIA cutout, the same police files with more zenz references, and some norweigan site that appears to just be a wordpress blog with zero sources.
More sources debunking this nonsense here.
A git hub faq is definently a 100% unbiased source
There is no such thing as unbiased sources buddy. If someone tells you a source is unbiased, they are either lying to you or don’t understand how biases work.
There are certainly levels of bias and a github FAQ designed solely to prove a point filled with unsubstantiated X links definetly seems pointed
No one is pretending it isn’t. But the fact that it is pointed doesn’t automatically make it false. You are rejecting sources on little more than vibes here.
As did the main poster. Except they put in the effort to attach a convoluted straw man. Yes they did link a bad dude to one source within a source amongst many other sources mind you, but that’s not really conclusive.
I could have gone on a rant about how their source used X links which is connected to a know Nazi (Musk) but that’s not really related to the evidence at all.
Its just a bunch of links to news articles, just like you posted. Only mine don’t reference anti-semites who work for the US state department, western state media in a desperate attempt to show that their enemies kill as many muslims as they do (including right now I might add), and reactionary east-turkistan uyghur separatists.
It’s kinda neat how everyone that disagrees is conveniently anti-semetic or state sponsored and miraculously everyone that agrees with you is definently not biased or morally dubious in anyway. Very convenient
Ironically Trump is using the strategy to deport people
Now you’re just vagueposting in bad faith. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy
I’d argue they are ignoring evidence and resorting to the classic ad hominem
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
But let’s just post breaking bad quotes, solid proof
The basis for Zenz’s sinophobia (and that of many china-watchers), is reactionary christian evangelism, which views birth control as a “sin”, so they make it their personal “crusade” to attack what they consider a heathen, non-christian state. All these far-right religious extremists also tend to be anti-semitic, so there’s not much contradiction there.
Trump and zenz are both white-supremacist sinophobes who would be more than happy to deport all people of chinese descent. They work for the same project and towards the same goal, global white-supremacy.
You’ve done an excellent job of proving 1 person is acting in bad faith.
That doesn’t dismiss all the other sources or evidence.
If you dig hard enough you can link a piece of anything to a bad actor. Most media is corporate after all. It’s not like I’ve dismissed the several sources you’ve posted that quote X just because X is related to Elon Musk, a known Nazi. A source heavily used by that github FAQ btw