Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’
chaosmarine92@reddthat.com 1 day agoLiterally nothing you just said is correct.
Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’
chaosmarine92@reddthat.com 1 day agoLiterally nothing you just said is correct.
seeigel@feddit.org 1 day ago
Is it wrong that Thorium reactions stop on their own?
chaosmarine92@reddthat.com 1 day 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.