{"id":195250,"date":"2024-08-26T12:54:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T17:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/china-prepares-to-change-world-with-introduction-of-revolutionary-nuclear-power-station-this-design-significantly-reduces-the-chances-of-meltdowns"},"modified":"2024-08-26T12:54:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T17:54:37","slug":"china-prepares-to-change-world-with-introduction-of-revolutionary-nuclear-power-station-this-design-significantly-reduces-the-chances-of-meltdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/china-prepares-to-change-world-with-introduction-of-revolutionary-nuclear-power-station-this-design-significantly-reduces-the-chances-of-meltdowns","title":{"rendered":"China prepares to change world with introduction of revolutionary nuclear power station: \u2018This design significantly reduces the chances of meltdowns\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JA8DgJ11jC4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thorium may sound like something out of a Marvel comic book, but the radioactive metal could provide a very real, renewable energy source.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese scientists have been working on a molten salt nuclear power plant using thorium for years. They even created a prototype reactor in 2021, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iaea.org\/newscenter\/news\/thoriums-long-term-potential-in-nuclear-energy-new-iaea-analysis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">International Atomic Energy Agency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The plan is to have a \u201csafer, greener\u201d power station up and running by 2025 in the Gobi Desert, where the small, experimental reactor is located, <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/energy\/china-world-first-molten-salt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">per<\/a> Interesting Engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thorium may sound like something out of a Marvel comic book, but the radioactive metal could provide a very real, renewable energy source. Chinese scientists have been working on a molten salt nuclear power plant using thorium for years. They even created a prototype reactor in 2021, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}