In 1969, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee switched off a pioneering experiment in nuclear power generation for the last time. Now, the Chinese government has given the go-ahead for a plant based on their blueprint in Gansu Province, in western China. The Gansu plant — which uses what’s known as a Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor — was jointly developed by the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) and the State Nuclear P