#China has started commercial operations of world's first fourth-generation #nuclearreactor, state media said on Dec 5. Compared with previous reactors, the fourth generation #Shidaowan plant, a modular 200MW high-temperature, gas-cooled reactor (#HTGCR) plant. In a related development, #Jiangnan #Shipyard has unveiled a design for an innovative new giant #containership -- with a capacity of 24,000 standard containers -- powered by a thorium molten-salt nuclear reactor.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-starts-up-worlds-first-fourth-generation-nuclear-reactor-2023-12-06/