A much bigger thorium molten salt reactor is already being built in China and is slated to achieve criticality by 2030
I read that and thought "damn that's such a long time away" before realizing 2030 is in just 5 years now
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“Rabbits sometimes make mistakes or grow lazy. That’s when the tortoise seizes its chance,” Xu told the meeting, referring to the US abandoning its molten salt reactor research in the 1970s after initial experiments.
American scientists pioneered molten salt reactor technology – including building a small test reactor in the 1960s – but the project was shelved in favour of uranium-based systems.
“The US left its research publicly available, waiting for the right successor,” Xu was quoted as saying. “We were that successor.”
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For all the things he and the "social" dems have said, all they've done in practice over the last 8 years is defang the labor movement by absorbing populist left into the dems.
Lol funny how this became the exact same kind of community filled with "negative articles", because the US is indeed a shithole
Taking a page out of the US playbook