China is poised to be a leader in next generation nuclear power.
Fangchenggang Nuclear Power Plant, Guangxi. Credit: China General Nuclear Power Corporation.
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
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