China is developing tech that will change the world 

I been keeping an eye on the Thorium reactor research in China for several years now. Very excited to see China getting so close to implementing it.

Hopefully China will make this technology available to peace loving nations. It seems to me that that would be in character.

I remember reading that it can use waste from uranium reactors as fuel also, so many wins with this tech

The other advantage, as I understand it, is that the nuclear waste half life is only several hundreds of years, instead of tens of thousands of years. This means storage and danger to the environment is a lot less complicated. Hope China succeeds. This could be the game changer that will solve carbon neutrality.

Absolutely, China should offer to sale Thorian reactors to others. They will be a lot cheaper and safter than the current reactors. Also, Thorian reactors can be adopted to consume nuclear waste as fuel. Thereby further reducing the current dangerous stockpile of nuclear waste globally. This is another win-win project that China has committed to better mankind.

For a 7 minute video, bet you put in 70 hours of research and editing, may be more. Much respect!

Some other benefits of thorium MSR. They operate at ambient pressure since the coolant and the fuel are liquid and operate at a high temperature. No need for pressurized water to get high temperatures needed for energy transfer to run turbines that create electrical power. Second, they are self-regulating. If the temperature of the reactor rises, the MSR will slow down reaction as the thorium molecules expand their distances causing the reaction to slow. Further, there is a drain plug that is cooled that runs on power from the reactor. If the reactor power stops, the drain plug melts and the molten salt drops into cooling tanks. This reactor is producible in a factory and requires no pressure dome to contain any high pressure. There are several types, some of which can burn existing uranium waste from current nuclear reactors. Many designs show the reactors under ground so as to minimize the possibility of a plane crashing into it. It is also highly scalable. However, the US government has not strongly endorsed this type of reactor and the US effort in this sector is from private companies with non-government funds to move their programs forward.

Nuclear is the way to go but with better safety etc. Sun, wing and hydro can be unpredictable. Technology is improving daily and many of the issues will be resolved.

i wish this will be a success. it will benefit not only china, but also the world. go and get it done china 👍👍💪💪👌👌🤗🤗. love from canada.

Wish China every success in its endeavor

Meanwhile in USA: 🥶 People freezing to death 🥵 People burning to death

Definitely China should pursue developing the Thorium nuclear reactor!

Very insightful as always man! Love your videos and love China! ❤🎉

Some other advantages of thorium reactors. It does not require (large amount of) water. So far all nuclear power plants must be built either by the coast line, or by big river. Bugger both are very likely to be heavily populated. Meanwhile the arid inland can't have nuclear power. Molten salt reactor will be the saviour. Another one it can use nuclear waste of current uranium reactors as fuel, saving the huge trouble of digging and building concrete reinforced storage/ safe keeping facilities for those highly dangerous wastes (over 10s of thousands of years) and turning garbage into treasure. For the good of mankind there was really no reason to stop the research in the 1970s, except for the US gov. 1 it can't make nuclear weapons, 2 it would kill the fossil fuel industry, 3 the world would be much harder to control if there is abundant energy (Africa would have clean drinking water, electricity to light up the houses, communication, and agriculture).

Thank you for your informative video on the topic🙂👍🙏

Ou, nice, we will see how the future will played out. Up to now no thorium reactors were beyond lab stage. And thorium reactors are not actually free of nuclear waste as some say - far from it. But it is an improvement over the previous reactors and they are safer, though not really "safe". I still prefer actual renewable.

Thank you for a very informative video

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The U.S. wanted weapons…therefore, it did care about befouling.

Just saw your clip and heard from news, Saudi Arabia is partnering China for nuclear energy. That could be Thorium reactor as hard for water cooling there

It's tragic that the US and USSR didn't pursue this research further back in the 1960s. Should have had this tech become common decades ago.

Press F to Doubt.

I thought I saw in CNE news that this Thorium reactor is already operational and being used already somewhere in Xinjiang region but only to a limited capacity at the moment.

It was the release (onto the Internet) of the documentation collected at Oak Ridge that opened up this avenue to the Chinese. We, Americans, dropped the ball on this one back in the '70s. Uranium /Plutonium reactors were given favor because they produce fuel for the production of nuclear warheads. Wrongheadedly, IMO, we felt the need to always trump the USSR. Also, there was a bit of cronyism involved as Nixon's donors stood to gain if the development of the costlier and more dangerous reactors was promoted. They really should have let the American people decide what we wanted in this case. This one, IMO, would have been a no-brainer. Why did their have to be a choice anyway? Couldn't the technologies have been allowed to develop in parallel? What the Chinese have done is worked out the kinks and improved what was already a proven concept. We basically betrayed those physicists and engineers who built America's pioneering thorium molten salt reactor - only to have it be unceremoniously relegated to the dustbin of history. Alas, hindsight is 20/20.

hope they do

The future belongs to Asia, especially Southeast Asia.

If some of the reports indicated for this type of nuclear power goes on line, surely China will become the only source of environmentally friendly of energy. The whole country could be wired both for the hit summer and then the cold winter seasons; where very family could enjoy. Won't this be able to cheaply produce the Green Hydrogen for the trucks and railway locomotives? This alone ensures China will be the most important industrial nation with such cheap source of energy! Use this judicially to serve your own objectives!

I think it's good for the world.

Of the six proposed fourth-generation nuclear reactor types, the Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) is the only type with high fuel efficiency, no danger of explosion, and does not generate substantial amounts of plutonium. The fissile uranium-233 produced by the MSR is difficult to use for weapons because of the presence of highly radioactive uranium-232. While other Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) can serve as a short-term solution, MSRs are considered a more promising mid-term solution due to their potential to address these issues more comprehensively. Hopefully, we will have fusion by the time we run out of uranium and thorium. With the molten salt reactor, 7.5 million tons of uranium will be exhausted in a thousand years at an annual consumption of 7500 tons. Using thorium will extend it by a couple of thousand years. The differences between Light Water Reactors (LWR) and Thorium Molten Salt Reactors (TMSR) are significant in fuel utilization and waste production. LWRs use approximately 0.5-1% of uranium fuel, leading to the generation of long-lived radioactive waste due to inefficient energy conversion and the use of enriched uranium. In contrast, TMSRs can achieve fuel efficiency of up to 98%. This is achieved by converting fertile thorium-232 into fissile uranium-233, substantially reducing waste production and more manageable radioactive waste. Uranium Molten Salt Reactors (UMSR) will produce more plutonium but are just as effective as TMSRs. 940 kg of natural thorium in a Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) can generate 1 gigawatt (GW) of electricity for one year. In comparison, generating the same amount of energy in a Light Water Reactor (LWR) would require mining 210 tons of uranium. In an MSR, the storage requirement for 83 percent of the spent fuel is 10 years, and 300 years for the remaining 17 percent, whereas in an LWR, 24.44 tons of spent fuel need reprocessing and storage for 200,000 years. MSRs can utilize the spent fuel from LWRs. A coal power station will need to burn 3.5 million tons of coal and emit 10 million tons of carbon dioxide to produce the same amount of energy for one year. That amount of coal contains 3 to 14 tons of uranium, 3 to 14 tons of thorium, and an average of 84 tons of arsenic. MSRs can adjust power output to match electricity demand, thanks to the inherent and automatic load-following capability provided by the fluid nature of the molten salt coolant. A key safety feature of MSR is that it automatically adjusts to prevent overheating. This is achieved through a "negative thermal reactivity coefficient," which means that as the temperature rises, the reactor's reactivity decreases, preventing a runaway chain reaction. Additionally, the MSR has a "negative void reactivity coefficient," ensuring that the reactivity decreases if there is a loss of coolant or boiling, preventing potential overheating. These safety measures help keep the reactor stable and safe under various conditions. Looking ahead to 2040, China plans to deploy Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) for desalination of seawater, district heating or cooling, hydrogen production, powering of ships equipped with Thermoacoustic Stirling Generators, and power plants with Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Turbines within its borders and globally. In the Earth's crust, thorium is nearly four times more abundant than uranium. China produces thorium as a byproduct of its rare earth processing. Similar to the trends observed with solar and wind technologies, MSR costs are anticipated to decrease with the scaling up of production and the development of robust supply chains.

The less dangerous the better

Traditional nuclear power plants need access to a lot of water as coolant. This prohibits regions which lack access to water from building them. With the thorium reactors, this is not a problem and desert countries like Egypt, Pakistan can most certainly use them. If i'm not mistake, China's first commercial thorium reactor is built in Xinjiang, a landlocked desert area, just to demonstrate the point.

A T-shirt mixed up Dutch orange with Mexico green makes me fail to focus my attention on the super scientific content of this vlog sighs😮

China's technology development is incredibly impressive. China is a blessing to the world.Nuclear power will be the base supply of energy in the future as solar and wind power will not be enough to keep the world economy going.Currently Uranium based nuclear fission reactors are used in many countries while research on fusion reactors are still ongoing.France generates 70% of its electricity requirement from nuclear power stations.A working thorium based reactor if proven safe and reliable in this POC (Prove Of Concept) project in Gobi Desert will be a real great leap forward for humanity.Let's cross our fingers.😇❤❤‍🩹🙏

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why mexico tshirt?

What a relief to see the host of this channel finally and FINALLY come out of the fuzzy and silly veil and state what is meant to be said in a less ambiguous manner, though a lot of room could still be used for improvement.

Introduce this in SA

thorium is hype due to one big misunderstanding, the issue is not if you can produce power, but the cost per watt. on the technical side, you cannot run a chain reaction on thorium, it is just not reactive enough, so you have to breed thorium into uranium and it is that uranium that give the power, so all thorium reactor are uranium breeder, which are alot more complicated than just building a reactor that burn a fuel that is already refined in another factory. think of it this way, you are trying to build a reactor that is also functioning as a refinery at the same time to maintain the fuel mixture and removing the byproduct so the fuel remains reactive enough to sustain the chain reaction, this is why most design use a molten solution, as it would be easier to pump the mixture around and remove the impurities in the system, but it is a very complicated machine to build compare to a standalone reactor that just remove the spend fuel. a thorium reactor will always be more expensive than a uranium reactor since you have more moving part to keep the system running. this is why China doesn't pour as much money into developing it as solar power. because solar power would be cheaper to run per kilowatt, thorium reactors are only being develop as a supplement for power generation.

helpful, but sun and wind much safer.

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The 1950s American nuclear-powered aircraft program that explored molten salt reactor technologies, which you mentioned, was based on the concept from Qian Xue Sen, who was also co-founder of the JPL.

solar energy is the best becos there is no nuclear waste.