World’s First Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Starts Producing Energy in China
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As the country bids to become the world leader in nuclear power, it plans surpassing the U.S. in 15 years.

China connected its first small modular nuclear reactor to its power grid, making it the first country in the world to draw power from such a machine. Its small size allows for greater scalability as well as reduced operations and deployment costs.

The new modular nuclear reactor is the world's first pebble-bed modular high-temperature gas-cooled reactor. Instead of heating up water, it heats helium to produce energy. The machine is designed to quickly shut down if an error occurs.

  • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    "China is the world's largest investor in nuclear power, with estimations suggesting it will pay up to 440 billion dollars towards building new nuclear power plants over the next 15 years, allowing it to overtake the U.S. as the world's top generator of nuclear electricity" make that China will overtake the U.S. on all fronts in 15 years :sicko-hair: