China launches fourth-generation nuclear reactor, world's first (www.hindustantimes.com)

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The Shidao Bay plant in eastern Shandong province is powered by two high-temperature reactors cooled by gas rather than pressurised water, according to state news agency Xinhua

Think of how many renewables they could have made for all the monies wasted on this.

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[-] schizoidman@lemmy.ml 14 points 5 months ago

If I am not mistaken this is the 'pebble bed' reactor. Nice to see it finally make it out of testing phase.

[-] lntl@lemmy.ml -3 points 5 months ago

article says they're SMRs which i don't know another example of them ever being deployed commercially. this is also pretty neat

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