Viability of thorium-based nuclear fuel cycle for the next generation nuclear reactor: Issues and prospects

UE Humphrey, MU Khandaker - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
… This paper presented a review on the past, present and the future of thorium fuel … thorium
fuel cycle, looking at the prospects and drawbacks on the possibility of thorium-based nuclear

An overview of thorium as a prospective natural resource for future energy

RK Jyothi, LGTC De Melo, RM Santos… - Frontiers in Energy …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
… Potential advantages and challenges critical to further development associated with
thorium-based nuclear energy are highlighted as well, and an outlook on its future prospects is …

Nuclear power from thorium: different options

S Banerjee, HP Gupta, SA Bhardwaj - Current Science, 2016 - JSTOR
… In view of the rene rest in thorium, the possibilities of thorium utilization in different … of
long-term sustain ability of nuclear power, it is clear that the thorium fuel cycle can display all its …

A future for thorium power?

C Rubbia - Thorium Energy for the World: Proceedings of the …, 2016 - Springer
energy for many thousand years, far beyond the possibilities of … or a critical thorium-driven
breeding nuclear reactor can be … long-lasting and nearly identical breeding nuclear fuel cycles, …

An overview of thorium utilization in nuclear reactors and fuel cycle

JR Maiorino, F D'Auria, R Akbari-Jeyhouni - … of the Croatian Nuclear …, 2018 - arpi.unipi.it
thorium core in the current nuclear power plants. We also have made a study to convert an
Advanced PWR, to use … 10, a possibilities of closed fuel cycles using Fast Reactors and ADS. …

Thorium energy for the world

JP Revol, M Bourquin, Y Kadi, E Lillestol… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - Springer
… the fourth event in its series of Thorium Energy Conferences. The ThEC13 organizers would
… a global and thorough overview of current thorium nuclear power activities in the world, and …

[КНИГА][B] The use of thorium in nuclear power reactors

US Atomic Energy Commission. Division of Reactor … - 1969 - books.google.com
… The prospect for long fuel exposures is enhanced in the thorium cycle primarily by virtue of
the higher conversion ratio and, hence, lower fuel reactivity changes, achievable in thermal …

Thorium as a nuclear fuel

BS Van Gosen, H Tulsidas - Uranium for nuclear power, 2016 - Elsevier
Thorium-based nuclear power, despite several decades … thorium-based nuclear power has
spurred research and development on several concepts for advanced reactors using thorium

The thorium fuel cycle: Past achievements and future prospects

D Greneche - Thorium Energy for the World: Proceedings of the …, 2016 - Springer
… From the early days in the development of nuclear energy, thorium has been considered
a potential fuel that could possibly supplement or even replace the natural uranium that was …

Nuclear Power from Thorium: Some Frequently Asked Questions

S Banerjee, HP Gupta - ThoriumEnergy for the Future: Select Papers …, 2019 - Springer
… which undergoes fission only with high energy neutrons (> ~1 … use thorium in a nuclear
reactor, it is necessary to first convert Th 232 into a fissile nuclide, U 233 which can then be used