<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>philipkglass</author><text>AFAICT this article offers no dates, no numbers, and no primary sources. China &lt;i&gt;did&lt;/i&gt; announce a thorium research program back in 2011, and continues to publish research, but I don&amp;#x27;t see any notable recent developments reported on other sites.&lt;p&gt;The IAEA does not currently list any reactors matching this description in operation or under construction in China:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pris.iaea.org&amp;#x2F;pris&amp;#x2F;CountryStatistics&amp;#x2F;CountryDetails.aspx?current=CN&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pris.iaea.org&amp;#x2F;pris&amp;#x2F;CountryStatistics&amp;#x2F;CountryDetails....&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;World Nuclear News does not have any recent stories about Chinese thorium reactors.&lt;p&gt;Is this article just a rehash of old news? Or has a Chinese thorium reactor achieved criticality recently? Videos of simulations and 3D renderings are a dime a dozen. New reactor concepts are interesting only when someone operates real hardware. China &lt;i&gt;can&lt;/i&gt; do so but there&amp;#x27;s nothing in this article that makes me think it &lt;i&gt;has&lt;/i&gt; just done so.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>China Invests Big in Clean and Cheap Energy from Thorium</title><url>http://www.thoriumenergyworld.com/press-release/china-invests-big-in-clean-and-cheap-energy-from-thorium</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Animats</author><text>Is there a better source for this than &amp;quot;Thorium Energy World&amp;quot;?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>China Invests Big in Clean and Cheap Energy from Thorium</title><url>http://www.thoriumenergyworld.com/press-release/china-invests-big-in-clean-and-cheap-energy-from-thorium</url></story>