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China is developing the world's smallest nuclear power plant for South China Sea islands.

The tiny power plant would fit inside a shipping container measuring about 6.1 metres long and 2.6 metres high, it would be able to generate generate 10 megawatts of heat - enough to power 50,000 households.

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According to the South China Morning Post, The nuclear plant is also capable of running for years or even decades without ­refuelling, and scientists say that because it produces neither dust nor smoke, even on a small island a resident would hardly notice its existence.

Researchers are carrying out intensive work on the unit – dubbed the hedianbao, or “portable nuclear battery pack”.

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The Chinese researchers admit their technology is similar to a compact lead-cooled thermal reactor that was used by the navy of the former Soviet Union in its nuclear submarines in the 1970s.

 

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“Part of our funding came from the military, but we hope – and it’s our ultimate goal – that the technology will eventually benefit civilian users,” Professor Huang Qunying, a nuclear scientist involved in the research, said. Read full information here.