Uh, what about the THTR-300 that operated at 300MW capacity from 1987 to 1989?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/THTR-300
It was a total failure, though. Not quite Chernobyl, but it was plagued by incidents.
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Honestly, I'm not a nuclear physicist by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm not sure how they plan to emergency cool the reactor to prevent a meltdown if it's filled with molten salt. Anything colder than molten salt going into the reactor would cause it to be clogged up by not-molten salt.
At least the THTR seemed to have cooling capabilities as the foremost priority.
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Scientific advances from China need to have outside confirmation. Because, propaganda and all that
I cannot speak for this area of science, but in my field China's research papers, for example rock mass failure response to complex stress states, are like a god send, really quality work. This is my opinion in my field but if I had to extrapolate... Remember the Soviets with all their propaganda had amazing scientists
Yeah, they had way more horrifying ones:
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Remember when it was all the hype when things just started - crazy to see it actually happen
Thorium? Fucking sweet!