{"id":816266,"date":"2025-01-01T05:17:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T11:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/01\/why-china-is-building-a-thorium-molten-salt-reactor\/"},"modified":"2025-01-01T05:17:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T11:17:03","slug":"why-china-is-building-a-thorium-molten-salt-reactor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/01\/why-china-is-building-a-thorium-molten-salt-reactor\/","title":{"rendered":"Why China Is Building a Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature After a half-century hiatus, thorium has returned to the front lines of nuclear power research as a source of fuel. In 2025, China plans to start building a demonstration thorium-based molten-salt reactor in the Gobi Desert.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe 10-megawatt reactor project, managed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences\u2019<br \/>\n\tShanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/chinas-thorium-molten-salt-reactor\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Yu-Tzu Chiu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature After a half-century hiatus, thorium has returned to the front lines of nuclear power research as a source of fuel. In 2025, China plans to start building a demonstration thorium-based molten-salt reactor in the Gobi Desert. The 10-megawatt reactor project, managed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences\u2019 Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":816267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4299,1827,536],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-816266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-building","8":"category-china","9":"category-science-nature"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}