{"id":238542,"date":"2026-06-07T10:08:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T15:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/chinas-thorium-reactors"},"modified":"2026-06-07T10:08:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T15:08:36","slug":"chinas-thorium-reactors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/chinas-thorium-reactors","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Thorium Reactors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-thorium-reactors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-thorium-reactors2.jpg\" style=\"display:none;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Every commercial nuclear reactor in the world runs on uranium. Uranium brings three undeniable problems. It creates weapons-grade plutonium. It melts down under pressure. Its radioactive waste lasts for tens of thousands of years.<\/p>\n<p>Thorium solves all three.<br \/> Physicists have known this since the 1960s. The United States actually built a working thorium reactor. They proved the technology was viable. Then they deliberately abandoned it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every commercial nuclear reactor in the world runs on uranium. Uranium brings three undeniable problems. It creates weapons-grade plutonium. It melts down under pressure. Its radioactive waste lasts for tens of thousands of years. Thorium solves all three. Physicists have known this since the 1960s. The United States actually built a working thorium reactor. They [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238542","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=238542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}