China plans to have a 5 megawatt (MWe) thorium molten salt reactor by 2015.

China plans to have a 5 megawatt (MWe) thorium molten salt reactor by 2015.

http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/05/china-plans-to-have-5-megawatt-liquid.html

The China Academy of Sciences in January 2011 launched a program of R&D on thorium-breeding molten-salt reactors (Th-MSR or TMSR), otherwise known as Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR), claiming to have the world's largest national effort on these and hoping to obtain full intellectual property rights on the technology. A 5 MWe MSR is apparently under construction at Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (under the Academy) with 2015 target operation.

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