Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’
cdkg@lemm.ee 1 week agoYeah, thorium reactors can’t meltdown because they need to constantly being powered by thorium, sick you can find anywhere. There’s a 2008 or so bill gates Ted talk on nuclear power that talks about it. For better or worse, china is going to lead the world regarding energy (and economy, seeing all those trump tariffs)
xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
i did see that TED talk… i saw someone say that’s just the reactor design that’s safe, and uranium couldn’t melt down in that type of reactor either….
but that was just some comment and i’m not qualified to speculate on it… but meltdowns are the biggest problem with nuclear, imo….
i think we should just dump all of our nuclear waste off the coast of japan… and hopefully generate some kaijū