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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Thorium Reactor"”.
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Critical assessment of thorium reactor technology
Thorium-based fuels for nuclear reactors are being considered for use with current and future designs in both large and small-scale energy production. Thorium-232 is as abundant on Earth as lead, far more common than all isotopes of uranium, leading to its greatly reduced cost. Thorium itself …
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Initiating Event Analysis of a Lithium Fluoride Thorium Reactor
… Initiating Event Analysis for a Lithium Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR) as the first step of a Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA). The major objective of the research is to compile a list of key initiating events capable of resulting in failure of safety systems and release of radioactive …
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A measurement of the resonance escape probability of neutrons in a homogeneous thorium reactor
… of the resonance escape probability of thorium as thorium nitrate in aqueous solution has been made as a function of thorium concentration. The physical system used was an aluminum box surrounded by successive layers of cadmium, paraffin and borated paraffin to keep out neutrons …
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Does thorium have a place in the future U.S. electricity mix?
<p>Thorium is an alternative fuel source for nuclear energy. Coupled with its use in a new reactor design, called a Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor, the two have the ability to disrupt the nuclear industry and power sector. Nuclear energy is a clean and reliable source of energy; however, it …
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A quantitative assessment of nuclear weapons proliferation risk utilizing probabilistic methods
… proliferation risk between various nuclear reactor/fuel cycle concepts using a probabilistic method. The work presented details quantified proliferation resistance metrics of a pressurized water reactor (PWR), a PWR utilizing thorium as a fertile component of the nuclear fuel (Radkowsky …
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Impact of thorium based molten salt reactor on the closure of the nuclear fuel cycle
<p>"Molten salt reactor (MSR) is one of six reactors selected by the Generation IV International Forum (GIF). The liquid fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR) is a MSR concept based on thorium fuel cycle. LFTR uses liquid fluoride salts as a nuclear fuel. It uses <sup>232</sup>Th and <sup>233</sup>U as …
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Fail-safe source-driven fission and fusion-fission hybrid reactor configurations
A source-driven nuclear reactor configuration with a unity infinite medium multiplication factor fission core (1k), is investigated for both fission and fusion-fission hybrid systems. Suchaconfiguration is thought to offer adesirable fail-safe reactor alternative in that the loss of the fission …