‘No quick wins’: China has the world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor

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• solo@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I found the following article from 2019 that contradicts several claims in this article (archive link). I am not familiar with this tech, so if anyone of you is, could you share your thoughts?

  Fact-check: Five claims about thorium made by Andrew Yang

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  • sqgl@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bear in mind that this is from the nuclear energy industry with a bias such as claiming nuclear is necessary for net zero carbon emissions by 2049 (ignoring pumped hydro storage of renewable energy).

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• mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “No quick wins” is some weird editorializing OP. That phrase is nowhere on the article.

  The closest thing to it is that China managed this breakthrough due to “strategic stamina,” i.e it took time to make this work.

  Overall, this is a huge accomplishment, especially if China is willing to share the design. Even if they aren’t, this should dramatically ramp down China’s fossil fuel usage over the next couple of decades, so its still a win for the test of us.

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  • Alsephina@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “No quick wins” was in the original title of the article. SCMP often change their title within a few hours of releasing an article.

    If you link the article as a post, that’s still the title Lemmy automatically recommends.

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