China expects to greenlight six to eight new nuclear power units a year within the foreseeable future, an official at the China Nuclear Energy Association (CNEA) said, according to a report in state media outlet Xinhua on Wednesday.
It's kind of funny how these could've been made decades ago, but nobody cared to because thorium can't be used for nuclear weapons. So everybody would rather just mine uranium since it's dual use.
Right? I recall people talking about Thorium reactors over a decade ago, and they were already an established concept back then. Seemed like future was just around the corner - then nothing. Good thing China's doing something
It's kind of funny how these could've been made decades ago, but nobody cared to because thorium can't be used for nuclear weapons. So everybody would rather just mine uranium since it's dual use.
Right? I recall people talking about Thorium reactors over a decade ago, and they were already an established concept back then. Seemed like future was just around the corner - then nothing. Good thing China's doing something
indeed, China just keeps winning.