Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’
EstonianGuy@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Norway has a thorium reactor since 1959
Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’
EstonianGuy@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Norway has a thorium reactor since 1959
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I can’t find a clear source on this. Could you help? This one says 2013 thorenergy.no
xia@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
According to a modern statistical oracle:
In 1959, Norway achieved a notable milestone by starting up its first nuclear reactor, the JEEP I (Joint Establishment Experimental Pile), located at Kjeller. This reactor was primarily used for research purposes, including early experiments with alternative nuclear fuels such as thorium. While JEEP I itself was not a thorium reactor per se, it laid the groundwork for subsequent Norwegian research into thorium as a nuclear fuel. This early phase demonstrated Norway's scientific interest in thorium, leveraging its domestic thorium resources and contributing to later thorium reactor experiments.
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So…
Not a Thorium reactor
Didn’t produce any power
So China still has a win here.
Frostbeard@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Norway has one of the worlds largest deposits of thorium, but I have ot heard that we had a working reactor, just the principle of one.
If the chinese has indeed made it work I think we need to prepare for USA wanting to annex Norway as well
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Worse than useless.
xia@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
I hope it’s not “worse than useless” (which would mean “misleading”), as my goal was simply to find more identifiers for discussion or research than: norway, thorium, 1959…