minus-squareyogurt@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.world•China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·edit-219 hours agoThey put a plug in the bottom that melts if the salt gets too hot and it drains out into a tank that stops the reaction with no moving parts or anyone controlling it. After it cools down they can remelt it and put it back in. linkfedilink
They put a plug in the bottom that melts if the salt gets too hot and it drains out into a tank that stops the reaction with no moving parts or anyone controlling it. After it cools down they can remelt it and put it back in.