Nuclear Energy

[GulfLander]

Korea Eximbank partners with KHNP, Meralco on Philippine nuclear energy projects​

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[PopularScience]

A crucial step! The first "Hualong One" nuclear power unit in the Yangtze River Delta region was connected to the grid for the first time.

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[RedGreekRevolt]

Thorium is a game changer on multiple levels - higher Carnot efficiency, vastly greater fuel supply, greater fuel efficiency due to cleaner burning fuel cycle with less long lived nuclear waste (because those waste products are also fissioned), etc. I don't think China will abandon it. Being careful is fine when it's something as high stakes as this.

We will see, in my opinion the greatest threat right now is that the TMSR-LF1 runs out it's maximum lifetime (10 years), gets decommissioned and TMSR-LF2 doesn't get built. I do think that after TMSR-LF3 (100MWe) gets built the project will have probably achieved escape velocity and GW scale reactors will be very likely to be built at that point.

 

[charles18]

We will see, in my opinion the greatest threat right now is that the TMSR-LF1 runs out it's maximum lifetime (10 years), gets decommissioned and TMSR-LF2 doesn't get built. I do think that after TMSR-LF3 (100MWe) gets built the project will have probably achieved escape velocity and GW scale reactors will be very likely to be built at that point.

Let's assume by year 2100 China figures out how to make nuclear fusion power work!
If this is true then nuclear thorium reactor technology will "only" have a useful life span of 74 years because afterwards nuclear fusion will dominate. Or maybe I'm wrong and thorium technology becomes like "coal power" something that will run the world for the next 300 years.

 

[RedGreekRevolt]

Let's assume by year 2100 China figures out how to make nuclear fusion power work!
If this is true then nuclear thorium reactor technology will "only" have a useful life span of 74 years because afterwards nuclear fusion will dominate. Or maybe I'm wrong and thorium technology becomes like "coal power" something that will run the world for the next 300 years.

For fusion to replace fission you not only need to make it work, you need it to produce electricity cheaper per kWh than fission. That's not happening any time soon. For technological leadership and national prestige you could have it producing like <1% of the electricity demand.

 

[RedGreekRevolt]

Jiang Mianheng, Jiang Zemin's son is underrated, he is(/was) a major political patron of the TMSR project.

 

[Michael90]

Jiang Mianheng, Jiang Zemin's son is underrated, he is(/was) a major political patron of the TMSR project.

His English is quite good, just like his dad was quite good in language as well.

 

[Ali Qizilbash]

This video seems to be 2011 or recent?

Is Jiang Mianheng still active with CAS or moved on?

 

[PopularScience]

His English is quite good, just like his dad was quite good in language as well.

He obtained PhD from an American University

 

[RedGreekRevolt]

This video seems to be 2011 or recent?

Is Jiang Mianheng still active with CAS or moved on?

The video is from 2012