On 17 November, Ambassador Li Song, China’s Permanent Representative to the IAEA, actively promoted the four initiatives proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping: the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative and the Global Governance Initiative. He did so during a meeting of the IAEA Technical Assistance and Cooperation Committee. He pledge
On 1 November, the 2MWt thorium-based molten salt reactor developed by the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics successfully converted thorium into uranium fuel for the first time, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences. This is the first time globally that thorium has been introduced into a molten salt reactor to produce valid experimental data. The reactor is now the only operational molt
The China-Russia Joint Coordination Meeting on Nuclear Safety was held in Beijing on 29 October. Dong Baotong, Administrator of China’s National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA), attended and addressed the meeting. Alexander Trembitsky, Chairman of the Federal Environmental, Industrial and Nuclear Supervision Service (Rostechnadzor), led the Russian delegation.Both sides engaged in in-dept