China achieves first-ever thorium to uranium nuclear fuel conversion (twitter.com) 3 points by leiaru13 8mo ago ↗ HN
[–] PaulHoule 8mo ago ↗ Notehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experimentused LiF-BeF2-ZrF4-UF4 fuel that had no actual Thorium in it so it did not produce any U233.
[–] metabagel 8mo ago ↗ Title is misleading."China achieves thorium-uranium nuclear fuel conversion in molten-salt reactor"https://english.news.cn/20251101/5fd1cf3dab394e9eb6dc69777ed...
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[ 2.4 ms ] story [ 11.8 ms ] threadhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment
used LiF-BeF2-ZrF4-UF4 fuel that had no actual Thorium in it so it did not produce any U233.
"China achieves thorium-uranium nuclear fuel conversion in molten-salt reactor"
https://english.news.cn/20251101/5fd1cf3dab394e9eb6dc69777ed...