Nuclear Energy
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PiSigma
"the engineer"
2 things
1: rules state if you post an article you need to put ur opinion of it, and not just "regards".
2: MSR is old news, China built them years ago and are almost ready for commercialization. So what makes this so special?
The estimated coal reserves here are 390 billion tons, accounting for about 7% of the national total, which is said to be enough to support China's energy needs for a century.
Nice 1, but China is moving towards renewable energy in future. So this coming decades renewable energy will form vast majority of Chinas energy needs as coal usage will keep reducing to a minimum . So maybe this reserves and others would be kept more as a backup just in case
Coal chemical industry will booming.
Pretty important event about fast breeder reactors (FBRs) just concluded in China. In my opinion the most important information is the following:
1. FBRs, when coupled with reprocessing can use all of natural uranium, not just U-235 which is just 0.72% of natural uranium.
2. The first CFR-600 reactor in Xiapu is confirmed to have been operating since 2023.
1. FBRs, when coupled with reprocessing can use all of natural uranium, not just U-235 which is just 0.72% of natural uranium.
2. The first CFR-600 reactor in Xiapu is confirmed to have been operating since 2023.
I had to tripple check the date of the article before I was sure that you have lost contact with the world for more than 10 years.
On the serious side, the article demonstrated that US is more than 10 years behind China in turning such reactor type into reality. There was a very brief cooperation between China and USA specially this Oak ridge lab from 2015 to 2018 on MSR. The cooperation was shut by US in 2018. If we use 2018 as the start line of a race, in less than 10 years, China is building two MSR demo plants with one is already operating, US is still working on theories in lab.
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