{"id":139659,"date":"2025-11-03T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=139659"},"modified":"2025-11-03T14:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:00:09","slug":"china-reaches-energy-independence-milestone-by-breeding-uranium-from-thorium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=139659","title":{"rendered":"China reaches energy independence milestone by \u2018breeding\u2019 uranium from thorium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAn experimental reactor developed in the Gobi Desert by the Chinese Academy of Sciences\u2019 Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics has achieved thorium-to-uranium fuel conversion, paving the way for an almost endless supply of nuclear energy.<br \/>\nThe achievement makes the 2 megawatt liquid-fuelled thorium-based molten salt reactor (TMSR) the only operating example of the technology in the world to have successfully loaded and used thorium fuel.<br \/>\nAccording to the academy, the experiment has provided&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3331312\/china-reaches-energy-independence-milestone-breeding-uranium-thorium?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAn experimental reactor developed in the Gobi Desert by the Chinese Academy of Sciences\u2019 Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics has achieved thorium-to-uranium fuel conversion,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139659"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}