Energy from thorium?! Reconnoitering a new possibility:FEA
The worldwide increasing energy consumption depends largely on fossil resources and is not sustainable. Section 1 starts with a reflection on this precarious situation as an introduction to a recently proposed possibility of a thorium-fueled sub-critical reactor driven by a proton accelerator. In co...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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1998
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/11370/bc00929b-6a9c-4413-858a-2556f038383d https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/bc00929b-6a9c-4413-858a-2556f038383d |
| Summary: | The worldwide increasing energy consumption depends largely on fossil resources and is not sustainable. Section 1 starts with a reflection on this precarious situation as an introduction to a recently proposed possibility of a thorium-fueled sub-critical reactor driven by a proton accelerator. In contrast with reactors fueled with uranium, breeding with thorium can offer clean and inexhaustible commercial energy. The following sections are devoted to feasibility, to non-proliferation aspects, incineration and transmutation, and to further FEA-stimulated studies. |
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