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China achieves first-ever thorium to uranium nuclear fuel conversion (twitter.com)
3 points by leiaru13 227 days ago
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PaulHoule 227 days ago
Note

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment

used LiF-BeF2-ZrF4-UF4 fuel that had no actual Thorium in it so it did not produce any U233.

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metabagel 227 days ago
Title is misleading.

"China achieves thorium-uranium nuclear fuel conversion in molten-salt reactor"

https://english.news.cn/20251101/5fd1cf3dab394e9eb6dc69777ed...

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