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

EstonianGuy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I can’t find a clear source on this. Could you help? This one says 2013 thorenergy.no

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  • xia@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.
    

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    • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So…

      1. Not a Thorium reactor

      2. Didn’t produce any power

      So China still has a win here.

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      • Frostbeard@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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

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    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Worse than useless.

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      • xia@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨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…

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