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

• SwordandArt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yes I remember reading about this a while back. It’s one of the main reasons Thoreum rectors are so much safer.

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  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I remember reading about this one, able to fit in a small area and be moved, but never knew if it was thorium

    interestingengineering.com/…/safe-micro-nuclear-r…

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• Zink@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  From what I’ve watched & read, it’s usually depicted as the freeze plug melts and the liquid salt flows into multiple small holding tanks below it. That way the fuel mass will be physically separated, which helps stop fission on top of any other mitigations like lining the containers with neutron absorbers, etc.

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  • Spaceballstheusername@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s that thorium is not fissile it’s fertile so separating the thorium from the uranium core prevents more thorium from absorbing neutrons.

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