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

• xia@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Worse than useless.

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    • xia@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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      • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I’m sorry to come on so strong – I don’t think it’s wise than useless as a tool to approach the right answers – but as I saw people upvoting this ‘answer’ without doing any checking, it occurs to me that this is how misinformation spreads. I hope my comment makes more sense in that context.

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