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China / Regulator Grants Operating Permit For Thorium Demonstration Reactor

By Kamen Kraev
30 June 2023

Plant still faces rounds of testing before first criticality

Regulator Grants Operating Permit For Thorium Demonstration Reactor
The demonstration plant has been built in the city of Wuwei in northwest China. Courtesy Creative Commons.
China’s National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA) has granted an operating permit to the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for the country’s first thorium molten salt reactor (TMSR) demonstrator plant.

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