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China Starts Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor Project

greg_barton writes "The Energy From Thorium blog reports, 'The People's Republic of China has initiated a research and development project in thorium molten-salt reactor technology. It was announced in the Chinese Academy of Sciences annual conference on Tuesday, January 25.' The liquid-fluoride thorium reactor is an alternative reactor design that 1) burns existing nuclear waste, 2) uses abundant thorium as a base fuel, 3) produces far less toxic, shorter-lived waste than existing designs, and 4) can be mass produced, run unattended for years, and installed underground for safety."

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  1. Re:Where we should have been years ago already by corbettw · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Not to mention the frustration of getting a message about a reply to an earlier post, only to have navigate to the post in question to read it. Under 2.0, the message center would take you right to the post in question and wouldn't even show parent posts unless you clicked on the "parent" button.

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  2. Re:Where we should have been years ago already by camperdave · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Not to mention the frustration of getting a message about a reply to an earlier post, only to have navigate to the post in question to read it. Under 2.0, the message center would take you right to the post in question and wouldn't even show parent posts unless you clicked on the "parent" button.

    Not only that, but you can't see siblings of parent posts. You start at the root post of the thread, then it's a straight drill down to the post in question, then you can read the tree of posts from that point down.

    Oh, and <i>italics</i> tags don't work anymore.
    Neither do <tt>TT</tt>tags.

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