Thorium Energy for the World Proceedings of the ThEC13 Conference, CERN, Globe of Science and Innovation, Geneva, Switzerland, October 27-31, 2013

Thorium Energy for the World Proceedings of the ThEC13 Conference, CERN, Globe of Science and Innovation, Geneva, Switzerland, October 27-31, 2013 / edited by Jean-Pierre Revol, Maurice Bourquin, Yacine Kadi, Egil Lillestol, Jean-Christophe de Mestral, Karel Samec.

The Thorium Energy Conference (ThEC13) gathered some of the world’s leading experts on thorium technologies to review the possibility of destroying nuclear waste in the short term, and replacing the uranium fuel cycle in nuclear systems with the thorium fuel cycle in the long term. The latter would...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Revol, Jean-Pierre (Editor), Bourquin, Maurice (Editor), Kadi, Yacine (Editor), Lillestol, Egil (Editor), de Mestral, Jean-Christophe (Editor), Samec, Karel (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Nuclear physics.
Heavy ions.
Nuclear energy.
Energy systems.
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Table of Contents:
  • Welcome
  • A Plea for Innovation
  • A Future for Thorium Power
  • Towards Sustainable, Secure and Safe Energy Future: Leveraging Opportunities with Thorium
  • Thorium Energy and Molten Salt Reactor R&D in China
  • The Japanese Thorium Program
  • Thorium Fuel Cycle activities in IAEA
  • Overview of European Experience with Thorium fuels
  • Overview of the Thorium Programme in India
  • The UK’s Strategy on Thorium Nuclear Technologies
  • Feasibility and Desirability of Employing the Thorium Fuel Cycle for Power Generation
  • MYRRHA: A Flexible and Fast Spectrum Irradiation Facility.

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