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Thorium Energy Conference ThEC13, 27-31 October, 2013
Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 3:35 pm
by crowberry
CERN will host the Thorium Energy Conference ThEC13 on 27-31 October,
2013. Nobel laureate in physics Carlo Rubbia will start the conference
and there is a large amount of interesting presentations by many people
from all over the world:
http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceTimeTab ... l.detailed
This conference will be webcasted so you can follow the presentations
if you are interested to.
Re: Thorium Energy Conference ThEC13, 27-31 October, 2013
Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2013 10:05 am
by crowberry
The upcoming Thorium Energy Conference 2013 is organized by the International Thorium Energy Organisation, IThEO,
http://www.itheo.org/
and international Thorium Energy Committee, iThEC,
http://www.ithec.org/
There is quite a lot of thorium related information and news available on those pages. Some of the presentations from previous Thorium Energy Conferences are available from the following links:
Thorium Energy Conference - ThEC12
http://www.itheo.org/thorium-energy-conference-2012
Thorium Energy Conference - ThEC11
http://www.itheo.org/thorium-energy-conference-2011
Thorium Energy Conference - ThEC10
http://www.itheo.org/thorium-energy-conference-2010
Thorium Energy Conference - ThEC09
http://itheo.org/thorium-energy-confere ... sentations
It is nice to see that there is significant work going on in this area in several countries. The interesting question is of course whether we will have large scale thorium or fusion power in the future. Thorium is already producing net energy on a small scale but moving forward in the fission area will take a long time, but if some fusion scheme reaches break then there will probably be a large shift in the resources for fusion development.
Re: Thorium Energy Conference ThEC13, 27-31 October, 2013
Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 6:48 pm
by paperburn1
Re: Thorium Energy Conference ThEC13, 27-31 October, 2013
Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 8:53 pm
by hanelyp
Thorium in a conventional reactor. The nuclear waste improvement usually associated with thorium is from the molten salt reactor.
Re: Thorium Energy Conference ThEC13, 27-31 October, 2013
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 1:04 pm
by KitemanSA
hanelyp wrote:Thorium in a conventional reactor. The nuclear waste improvement usually associated with thorium is from the molten salt reactor.
The waste improvement is typically from not having U238 in the reactor. The PuTh fuel being used does that. Indeed, with a traveling wave type reactor, this might allow a VERY high burn up before refueling. Still nowhere near s good as a LFTR, but a LOT better than typical LEF.