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2025-03-01 China-Japan-Koreas

China has found a fuel source with reserves sufficient for 60,000 years

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Posted by badanov 2025-03-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11142 views ] Top
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#1 it will be located in the Gobi Desert

In case it goes bangers.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-01 06:09|| 2025-03-01 06:09|| Front Page Top

#2

So when will China halt importing foreign oil and use their own?

The extra 10++ Million barrels a day, no longer being sent to China by various suppliers, should cause an over supply and bring down oil prices.

Unless, of course, China has developed an Oil-eating Flu Virus also.
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Posted by NN2N1 2025-03-01 06:28|| 2025-03-01 06:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Thorium reactors were all the rage twenty years ago; Saudi Arabia was very interested. Then their possibility just dropped off. Why?

Posted by Thavins Ebbolusing6295 2025-03-01 06:37|| 2025-03-01 06:37|| Front Page Top

#4 RETRO
Thorium’s Long-Term Potential in Nuclear Energy: New IAEA Analysis

In August 2021, China announced the completion of its first experimental thorium-based nuclear reactor.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-01 06:47|| 2025-03-01 06:47|| Front Page Top

#5 ^#3 Why? Because there are technical reasons that make Uranium-233 (what a Thorium-232 breeder reactor breeds) less suitable for making nuclear weapons. You have the option of chemically isolating Plutonium-239 with the Uranium-235/238 cycle if you plan on *cough* peaceful recycling.

Posted by magpie 2025-03-01 08:50|| 2025-03-01 08:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Hey Uyghur kid. School is out. Let me outfit you within this 19th century miner’s gear. Good news - you are off the kidney donor’s list.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-03-01 09:10|| 2025-03-01 09:10|| Front Page Top

#7 See, and woulda thought it was gonna be hamster style treadmills.

Posted by ed in texas 2025-03-01 15:32|| 2025-03-01 15:32|| Front Page Top

#8 lots of nations have large thorium reserves, e.g., India, Brazil and the US have over 500k tonnes

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-03-01 20:29|| 2025-03-01 20:29|| Front Page Top

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