minus-squareEnderLaw@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.ml•‘No quick wins’: China has the world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactorlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·6 days agoI remember reading somewhere that the US started work on Thorium reactors in the 60s and 70s, but abandoned work for reasons. China picked up on that old work. linkfedilink
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I remember reading somewhere that the US started work on Thorium reactors in the 60s and 70s, but abandoned work for reasons. China picked up on that old work.