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.
A nuclear engineer Mark Nelson claims almost reactor designs even including Soviet RBMKs can be maintained indefinitely through good management and retrofits EXCEPT British reactor designs. Hope Rolls Royce don't repeat that fuck up.
Imagine building hundreds of nuclear plants that your descendants will probably run on thorium and plutonium.
What is so important about these high temperature reactors is that they will be replacing coal and gas boilers in all sorts of manufacturing processes and to produce hydrogen for ammonia fertilizer and fuel.