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Well this didn't take long. Cubby house saying it would be decades...today small modularnuclear is on line.

The World’s First Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Is Sending Power to the Grid

As China bids to become the world leader in nuclear power.

China connected its first small modular nuclear reactor to its power grid, making it the first country in the world to draw power from such a machine, a report from Bloomberg reveals.

China Huaneng Group Co.'s 200-megawatt unit 1 reactor at Shidao Bay is connected to the grid in the Shandong province. The company is also developing a second reactor, which is scheduled to go into full operation next year following tests.

The 200-megawatt small modular reactor (SMR) is roughly a fifth of the size of China's first proprietary reactor design, called Hualong One. Its small size allows for greater scalability as well as reduced operations and deployment costs.

The new modular nuclear reactor is the world's first pebble-bed modular high-temperature gas-cooled reactor. Instead of heating up water, it heats helium to produce energy. The machine is designed to quickly shut down if an error occurs.

China is the world's largest investor in nuclear power, with estimations suggesting it will pay up to 440 billion dollars towards building new nuclear power plants over the next 15 years, allowing it to overtake the U.S. as the world's top generator of nuclear electricity.

The country is also investing heavily in nuclear fusion, which promises to end our reliance on fossil fuels by mimicking the reaction of the sun and stars on Earth. Recently, China's "artificial sun" reactor, called EAST, reportedly broke a record by running for 101 seconds at a temperature of 216 million° F (120 million° C).