CHINA-NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY
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The Science and Technology Daily, a newspaper owned by the official Ministry of Science and Technology, disclosed that China will build a hybrid reactor to achieve nuclear fusion and fission in one place by 2030. It disclosed that the project was being developed at a top secret military research facility after conceptual design was recently completed at the Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics in Sichuan, where China's nuclear weapons are developed. Professor Wang Hongwen, Deputy Director of the hybrid reactor project, said that the key components will be built and tested around 2020, with an experimental reactor due to be finished by 2030. (Comments: Physicists say that this would actually be a "sub critical reactor" which requires a megawatt beam to sustain the reaction. The reactor is purely fission. No fusion. An advantage is that it burns much cleaner fuel, mainly thorium, and the end products are a lot less radioactive than conventional fission reactors.)
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