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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/9784044/China-blazes-trail-for-clean-nuclear-power-from-thorium.html

>Princeling Jiang Mianheng, son of former leader Jiang Zemin, is spearheading a project for China's National Academy of Sciences with a start-up budget of $350m.

>He has already recruited 140 PhD scientists, working full-time on thorium power at the Shanghai Institute of Nuclear and Applied Physics. He will have 750 staff by 2015.

>The aim is to break free of the archaic pressurized-water reactors fueled by uranium -- originally designed for US submarines in the 1950s -- opting instead for new generation of thorium reactors that produce far less toxic waste and cannot blow their top like Fukushima.

>"China is the country to watch," said Baroness Bryony Worthington, head of the All-Parliamentary Group on Thorium Energy, who visited the Shanghai operations recently with a team from Britain's National Nuclear Laboratory.

>"They are really going for it, and have talented researchers. This could lead to a massive break-through."

ITS HAPPENING!!!

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>>5419420
I'll believe it when I see it, but maybe, finally, at long last, thoriumfags wet dreams will come true.

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Lets have a /sci/ thorium thread to celebrate this occasion. Just like the old times!

General nuclear circlejerk is also acceptable.

>> No.5419450

>>YFW it's not LFTR

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>thorium
>not deuterium

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>>5419450

But it is.

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>>5419452

>Implying we can into fusion.

>> No.5419475

>Princeling Jiang Mianheng
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princelings

>Baroness Bryony Worthington
wtf are we back in the middle ages?

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>>5419462
>mfw we've been Q>1 for years

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Tell me more about this clean energy.

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and they stole oakridge's research to do it
fuck damn
i am mad

>> No.5420738

>>5419566
>thinks hydrogen is more easily obtained than thorium, or even uranium