schizoidmanApr 18, 2025

China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’

https://lemm.ee/post/61658212

China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ - lemm.ee

https://archive.is/2nQSh [https://archive.is/2nQSh] > It marks the first long-term, stable operation of the technology, putting China at the forefront of a global race to harness thorium – considered a safer and more abundant alternative to uranium – for nuclear power. > The experimental reactor, located in the Gobi Desert in China’s west, uses molten salt as the fuel carrier and coolant, and thorium – a radioactive element abundant in the Earth’s crust – as the fuel source. The reactor is reportedly designed to sustainably generate 2 megawatts of thermal power.

Show threadAItoothbrushApr 18, 2025
Me opening the comment section knowing that its just gonna be a bunch of racism… like i get it i hate the chinese government as well but give credit to the millions of scientists and people who are actually trying to make life better on this earth. If something isnt american, it can still be nice to have.
Show threadfebraApr 18, 2025
I personally believe the CCP is doing an amazing job. Communism is working wonderfully
Show threadTeknikalApr 18, 2025

I don’t think it’s communism anymore but the Chinese gov are actually looking after their own citizens in my opinion. I kind wish Xi was in charge of the UK honestly.

They tend to think of everything long term and all of those projects are paying off, also Healthcare free education etc they are investing more in their own population than anyone else. US is in my opinion as UK guy pretty much done they’ve picked a fight that they won’t win.

Show thread🦄🦄🦄Apr 18, 2025
Their own citizens…except for LGBTQ people or uyghurs of course.
Show threadUnderpantsWeevilApr 19, 2025

Every time I read a headline about how there’s a genocide in Xinjiang, it’s in the same newspaper that insists Israel Has The Right To Defend Itself and Yemen needs to be bombed to powder.

At some point, it reads like liberal agitprop. An excuse to scare liberals into hating a foreign country so we can justify… what? Tariffs? TikTok bans? Nuclear war?

Same with LGBTQ rights. We’ve got a DOGE department doing a pogrom on “woke” government workers while I still get an earful about how mean China is to minority groups?

What am I supposed to take away from this?

Show threadqevlarrApr 19, 2025
Two wrongs don’t make a right. Or are you denying Uyghurs are being persecuted?
Show threadUnderpantsWeevil

The UN inspection committee could not find evidence to support your claims.

Why are you asserting the existence of a genocide in Xinjiang while endorsing the engineered famine across the border in Afghanistan?

Apr 19, 2025 at 10:09pmWeb
Show threadameancowApr 19, 2025

I love how almost none of this discussion is about nuclear power or thorium and just about people wanting to feel morally correct about something and snarling back and forth at each other accusing the other of supporting genocide.

Our species is so cooked. We must be the first species to evolve with our heads up our own asses.

Show threadUnderpantsWeevilApr 20, 2025

none of this discussion is about nuclear power or thorium and just about people wanting to feel morally correct about something and snarling back and forth at each other

I’m posed to snarl because I’ve seen this so many times before, as a justification to invade and destroy advanced industrial states that don’t bend the knee to the US State Department.

The reason you get thorium reactors out of China and Mars landers out of India comes down to two words “Peace Dividend”.

Our species is so cooked.

There’s a brighter future on the horizon. But you don’t get there by taking Marco Rubio at face value.