World’s first ‘meltdown-proof’ nuclear reactor aces safety test

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The Shidao Bay Nuclear Power Plant

China's Tsinghua University has scored a world first by demonstrating the inherent safety of the first operating commercial pebble-bed nuclear reactor by shutting off the power and letting the passive systems maintain control of the reactor core.

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