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China Just Powered Up the World’s First Thorium Reactor — and Reloaded It Mid-Run

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China just pulled off a feat no nation has managed before: it kept a nuclear reactor running while swapping out its radioactive fuel. That reactor, quietly humming away in the Gobi Desert, isn’t powered by uranium. It runs on thorium — a silvery metal that offers safer, cleaner, and more abundant nuclear energy with far less waste and no bomb-making potential.

This marks the first time anyone has successfully reloaded fuel in an operational thorium molten salt reactor (MSR) without shutting it down. And it puts China ahead in a race that, until recently, most countries didn’t even know had restarted.

 

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They used declassified US documents to develop the technology.

 

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