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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Thorium fuel cycle"”.
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An evaluation of the net breeding capability of heterogeneously-fuelled pressure-tube heavy water reactors with the thorium fuel cycle
The thorium fuel cycle is a promising future option for an alternative to uranium. The pressure tube heavy water reactor (PT-HWR) has for decades been considered capable of achieving net breeding on the thorium fuel cycle, but this capability has not been conclusively demonstrated. The goal of this …
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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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Impact of thorium based molten salt reactor on the closure of the nuclear fuel cycle
… 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 the fertile and fissile materials, respectively. Fluoride salt of these nuclides …
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Neutron Resonance Transmission Analysis of Nuclear Material Using a Portable D-T Neutron Generator
… system was also able to assay combinations of thorium and uranium metal of varying enrichment, as well as small quantities of U-233 oxide under high passive gamma backgrounds to accuracies under a gram. These results highlight the potential viability of using a portable NRTA system to support …
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Compact Capabilities: Developing and Evaluating a Field-Portable Neutron Resonance Capture Analysis System
Technological advances in the thorium fuel cycle and other advanced reactor concepts suggest their possible commercialization for nuclear power use in the next ten years. Although the thorium cycle shares many aspects with the uranium and plutonium fuel cycles, it introduces the requirement for the …
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THORIUM SPECIATION IN SYNTHETIC ANHYDRITE, PLACER ILMENITE CONCENTRATE, AND TITANIA SLAG: IMPLICATIONS FOR THORIUM GEOCHEMICAL BEHAVIOR, SEQUESTRATION, AND BENEFICIATION
Understanding thorium speciation and distribution in ore minerals and related materials is of critical importance so that the thorium fuel cycle can be sourced as byproducts from metallurgical processes. The objective of this dissertation is to study thorium-bearing species in selected ore minerals …
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Advanced online fuel reprocessing simulation for thorium-fueled molten salt breeder reactor
… changing isotopic composition of an irradiated fuel salt. SaltProc couples with the Monte Carlo code, SERPENT 2, for neutron transport and depletion calculations. SaltProc capabilities include a generic geometry capable of modeling multi-region and multi-flow systems, time-dependent feeds and …