The Shidao Bay plant in eastern Shandong province is powered by two high-temperature reactors cooled by gas rather than pressurised water, according to state news agency Xinhua

Think of how many renewables they could have made for all the monies wasted on this.

  • schizoidman
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    1 year ago

    If I am not mistaken this is the ‘pebble bed’ reactor. Nice to see it finally make it out of testing phase.

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      1 year ago

      article says they’re SMRs which i don’t know another example of them ever being deployed commercially. this is also pretty neat