This publication summarizes the results of an IAEA coordinated research project focussed on options for the deployment of thorium based nuclear energy. The enhanced capabilities of thorium based fuels ...
Thorium, much like uranium survives on Earth because it has isotopes with long half-lives but is about three times more abundant in nature than uranium. It’s fertile rather than fissile and can only ...
A researcher works at the charging-sampling hot cell of the experimental Thorium Molten Salt Reactor at the Wuwei campus of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics in ...
Abstract: Silicon carbide (SiC) power devices have been investigated extensively in the past two decades, and there are many devices commercially available now. Owing to the intrinsic material ...
† Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30322-0595, United States ‡ School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of ...
The Molten Salt Reactor Experiment achieved its first self-sustaining nuclear reaction on June 1, 1965. Three years later, on Oct. 8, 1968, it became the first reactor ever to run on uranium-233. MSRE ...