DOE involved with LFTR development - IN CHINA.

seedload · Post by **seedload** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 2:51 pm

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/intelli ... lear/17037

DOE’s assistant secretary for nuclear energy Peter Lyons is co-chairing the partnership’s executive committee, along with Jiang Mianheng from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), according to a March presentation by CAS on thorium molten salt reactors. Beijing-based CAS is a state group overseeing about 100 research institutes. It and the DOE have established what CAS calls the “CAS and DOE Nuclear Energy Cooperation Memorandum of Understanding.”

Sounds to me like we are assisting them to advance our own technology so that they can later sell it back to us. If we are interested enough in supporting them building LFTRs then we should be interested enough to build them ourselves.

Skipjack · Post by **Skipjack** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 11:50 pm

Yeah, you are a bit late with that. There is already a thread here on the topic... I started it

seedload · Post by **seedload** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 8:23 pm

I knew that LFTR was being pursued in China. It is the DOE's involvement that was new to me and I thought maybe to others. Sorry if you already pointed it out. I didn't even find your post using my rudimentary searching skills.

Skipjack · Post by **Skipjack** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:52 pm

There you go!
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