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>New testing done at China’s Shidaowan nuclear power plant has confirmed its ability to be naturally cooled down, an industry-first milestone for achieving commercial-scale inherent safety, according to researchers. The Shidaowan plant, a demonstration high-temperature, gas-cooled reactor with a pebble-bed module (HTR-PM), went into commercial operation last December.

Archive: https://archive.today/aLxLN From the post: >>New testing done at China’s Shidaowan nuclear power plant has confirmed its ability to be naturally cooled down, an industry-first milestone for achieving commercial-scale inherent safety, according to researchers. The Shidaowan plant, a demonstration high-temperature, gas-cooled reactor with a pebble-bed module (HTR-PM), went into commercial operation last December.
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From what I understand, someone gave thorium reactors the anti-Tesla elephant tx; they made up bogus claims about Thorium reactors and cut funding for their research, when in reality they are safer than most stuff out there.

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Besides the corrosion issues, yes.

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Ok that's fair. I bet it's something that could be addressed at this point though.

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you'd think, but liquid sodium/floride/etc are pretty gnarly stuff. I'm hoping that the Indian reactors can show some proof of concept though. It'd be nice to have power literally from the dirt beneath our feet