Foreign media: China has released key details of a new nuclear-powered cargo ship, which can carry 14,000 standard containers, and its power comes from a 200-megawatt thorium molten salt reactor (TMSR), with thermal power comparable to the S6W reactor of the US Navy's Seawolf-class nuclear submarine.
This reactor uses thorium as fuel, which is safer, more abundant, and less proliferation-prone than traditional uranium fuel. It does not require water cooling, is smaller, quieter, and safer.
If widely applied, it will completely revolutionize commercial shipping, naval engineering, and deep-sea operations.
Original: www.toutiao.com/article/1848033301062732/
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