Next Big Future: China targets new molten salt thorium nuclear reactors

Next Big Future: China targets new molten salt thorium nuclear reac...: The deadline to develop a new design for thorium nuclear power plants has been brought forward by 15 years as the central government tries ...

Comment:

There must be something that I'm missing ---- 10 years?!  After reading this little report here, which was produced in 1985, a lot of what these people are worried about has already been solved.  It should not take that long.

quote:

The thorium reactors would need years, if not decades, to overcome the corrosion issue and the stability of accelerator-driven plants was also in doubt, he said.

speculation:

Could be disinformation for purpose of concealing their progress.  Or they have problems because the information mentioned above was not available to them.

I also found this link at NBF.  This is hardly a new topic, as the link was produced in 2010.


Update:

More here at Sorensen's website.  It asks a question that may be uncomfortable to answer as it may be "no".