Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’

• fullsquare@awful.systems ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You’re confusing subcritical reactors with thorium power

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• fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Mathematics of wonton burrito meals, got it.

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• StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You do realize you’re on the internet, right? You can look things up first instead of spouting bullshit.

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• chaosmarine92@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Literally nothing you just said is correct.

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  • seeigel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is it wrong that Thorium reactions stop on their own?

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    • chaosmarine92@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It depends how they are designed. Same as regular uranium reactors. Thorium isn’t a reactor fuel after all, it’s what you use to breed more fuel. The actual fuel is still uranium. Thorium turns into uranium-233 then that is the fuel. Normal reactors use uranium-235. Both isotopes can be made to be passively safe.

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• rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Neutrons?

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