World’s first commercial onshore small reactor hoisted into place in Hainan

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The upper cylinder of the world's first commercial modular small nuclear reactor on land, the Linglong No.1, was hoisted into place in South China's Hainan Province on July 6, 2022. Linglong No.1 is a multi-functional pressurized water reactor (PWR) developed by China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) with proprietary intellectual property rights. It is also the first onshore commercial modular small reactor in the world under construction.

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[nicolass]

Chinese working 24x7 non stop project to finish not going to wait

[strongchallenger]

Day or night, the Chinese are working right through to ensure that the project is complete well ahead. 👉👍❤️

[roberttony]

Much smaller reactors can be readily achieved with a low energy power output reactor. Just all about how they are designed, how the reaction occurs, design temperature, reactant coolant, much smaller can readily be done, this in a many reactor design power station, up to two hundred reactors (much smaller and mass produced, delivered to site, fueled, life time supply).

If it has safety, when disaster happens, there is plan a, b, c, it is great. The Japanese claimed to have plan B, , but no plan C

[deaddocreallydeaddoc]

China did this by copying the plans developed by the U.S. Oakridge Nuclear Labs in1957. The backstory is that Thorium Molten Salt Reactors were developed by the U.S. at Oakridge and had one running from 1967 to 1969 when Nixon shut the program down. The reasons are that Light Water Uranium Reactors produce fissile material for making nuclear weapons while MSRs do not. In 2000, some Americans who still remembered that program found the old schematics at Oakridge and put them online for anyone to use. Chinese students in the U.S. learned about the plans and copied them. China got on it first. This reactor is not an MSR, but an LWUR, which is why it has cooling towers. So it still will create nuclear waste and fissile material for nukes. But China has had 700 scientists working on MSRs for years. The U.S. has about a dozen companies working on variations of the MSR, including Terrapower, which has three projects underway in the Pacific Northwest. In 2016., Elysium Power announced its ability to build an MSR that will burn waste from LWRs exclusively within a two-year window. The idea of "renewables" such as solar and wind is a tragic diversion from the only viable power source that will solve all of the problems we face now.

Support Republican Senator Tom Tubeville’s S.4242, Thorium Molten Salt Reactor bill! The best solution for the future of power in the U.S, Europe, and worldwide is the installation of Molten Salt Reactors, thorium looks best, but a number of fuels are being experimented with. We know that for example nuclear waste from Light Water Reactors can be burned in the far more efficient MSRs leaving virtually no residual waste. MSRs can be sued for cheap desalinization plants which are needed NOW. Solar and wind will never be able to deal with the crisis we now face. The technology was developed in the 1960s in the U.S. at Oakridge Nuclear Facility. They had one running for 35 years trouble-free until lack of interest defunded it. The Light Water Uranium Reactors were favored because they provided fissile material for nuclear weapons more readily. for Heavy Water Molten Salt Reactors are safer than the Light Water Uranium type because the molten salt provides both the heat and cooling factors so if there is an event it would cause the molten salt to drop in temperature and the plant shuts down automatically. There can be no meltdown. They are 97% efficient compared to the 3% efficiency of Light Water Reactors, so they can actually burn the nuclear waste of those types. They produce so much cheap electricity that projects like decarbonizing oceans and desalinization can be done simultaneously. They don't depend upon water for cooling so they can be built anywhere. They don't require a huge conducting system of massive cables from a wind or solar field because they can be built on present coal or light water locations at or near the source of use. Also, science has developed hydrogen fuel cells that can use iron instead of platinum, making fuel cells for cars and homes feasible. The solutions are here. All that is needed is for politicians to notice and unite to make what could be the quickest transition in the direction that solves the problem and would take the world into a better future.

[ridhopradana]

I hope nuclear is never work in this world until the end. Because it's scary and make people never sleep every night.