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IAEA-TECDOC--1319: Thorium fuel utilization: Options and trends

Proceedings of three IAEA meetings held in Vienna in 1997, 1998 and 1999

International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria), IAEA-TECDOC--1319

Abstract

A series of three IAEA meetings on utilization of thorium fuel were held in Vienna over a period of three years, 1997-1999.

The purpose of the meetings was to assess the advantages, shortcomings and options of the thorium fuel under current conditions, with the aim of identifying new research areas and fields of possible co-operation within the framework of the IAEA Programme on Emerging Energy Systems. Apart from current commercial reactors, the scope of the meetings covered all types of evolutionary and innovative nuclear reactors, including molten salt reactors and hybrid systems. This document contains individual presentations delivered at the meetings.

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Brazilian experience on thorium fuel cycle investigations
Brant Pinheiro, R. (Centro de Desenvolvimento da Tecnologia Nuclear, Belo Horizonte (Brazil))

Thorium fuel-cycle studies for CANDU reactors
Boczar, P.G.; Chan, P.S.W.; Dyck, G.R.; Ellis, R.J.; Jones, R.T.; Sullivan, J.D. Sullivan; Taylor, P. (Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd (Canada))

Studies on thorium fuel cycle in Japan
Hirakawa, H. (Tohoku University, Sendai (Japan))

Thorium fuel cycle concept for KAERI's accelerator driven system project
Eom, T.Y.; Do, J.B.; Choi, Y.D.; Park, K.K.; Choi, I.K. (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Taejon (Korea, Republic of))

BNFL's view of the thorium development programme
Wilson, P.D. (British Nuclear Fuels plc, Sellafield, Seascale (United Kingdom))

Experience of thorium fuel development in India
Majumdar, S.; Purushotham, D.S.C. (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai (India))

Some research and development of thorium fuel cycle in Russia
Troyanov, M.F.; Ilyunin, V.G.; Kalashnikov, A.G.; Kuzminov, B.D.; Nikolaev, M.N.; Raskach, F.P.; Smetanin, E.Ya.; Tsybulya, A.M. (State Scientific Center - Institute of Physics and Power Engineering, Obninsk (Russian Federation))

A competitive thorium fuel cycle for pressurized water reactors of current technology
Galperin, A.; Radkowsky, A. (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva (Israel)); Todosow, M. (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY (United States))

Nuclear energy research initiative: Thorium fuel cycle projects
Thompson, C.A. (Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology, United States Department of Energy, Germantown, MD (United States))

Recent advances in thorium fuel cycles for CANDU reactors
Boczar, P.G.; Dyck, G.R. (Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd, Chalk River Laboratories, Chalk River, ON (Canada)); Chan, P.S.W.; Buss, D.B. (Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd, Sheridan Park, Mississauga, ON (Canada))

Thorium cycle implementation through plutonium incineration by thorium molten-salt nuclear energy synergetics
Furukawa, K. (International Thorium Molten-Salt Forum, Oiso (Japan)); Simonenko, V. (Institute of Technical Physics, Snezhinks (Russian Federation)); Mitachi, K. (Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Aichi (Japan)); Furuhashi, A. (Nuclear Material Control Center, Tokyo (Japan)); Yoshioka, R. (Toshiba Inc., Yokohama (Japan)); Chigrinov, S. (Radiation Physics and Chemistry Problems Institute, Minsk (Belarus)); Lecocq, A. (EURIWA, Orsay (France)); Kato, Y. (Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Tokai (Japan))

A proliferation resistant fusion breeder for thorium fuel cycle
Sahin, S.; Sarer, B. (Gazi Universitesi, Ankara (Turkey)); Yapici, H.; Sahin, N. (Nigde Universitesi, Aksaray (Turkey))

The use of thorium for plutonium utilization in reactors
Dekoussar, V.; Ilyunin, V.; Kalashnikov, A.; Troyanov, M. (State Scientific Centre of the Russian Federation, Leipunski Institute of Physics and Power Engineering, Obninsk (Russian Federation))

Physics design of advanced heavy water reactor utilising thorium
Kumar, A.; Kannan, U.; Padala, Y.; Behera, G.M.; Srivenkatesan, R.; Balakrishnan, K. (Reactor Physics Design Section, Reactor Design and Development Group, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai (India))

Thorium pre-breeder/breeder route to widen the nuclear material base for generation of electric power
Jagannathan, V. (Theoretical Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai (India))

Thorium utilization in PWRs. Neutronics studies
Puill, A. (Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, CEA/SACLAY, Gif-sur-Yvette (France))

Molten salt reactor benchmark problem to constrain plutonium
Hirakawa, N.; Aboanber, A.I. (Tohoku University, Sendai (Japan)); Mitachi, K. (Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi (Japan)); Misawa, T. (Kyoto University (Japan))

Nuclear data evaluation and experimental research of accelerator driven systems using a subcritical assembly driven by a neutron generator
Chigrinov, S.; Rakhno, I.; Rutkovskaya, K.; Kievitskaia, A.; Khilmanovich, A.; Martsinkevich, B.; Salnikov, L.; Mazanik, S.; Serafimovich, I.; Sukhovitskij, E. (Radiation Physics and Chemistry Problems Institute, National Academy of Sciences, Minsk (Belarus))

Study of thorium fuel cycles burning plutonium in the Module-HTR
Jin Xingqinng; Xu Yunlin (Institute of Nuclear Energy Technology, Tsinghua University Beijing (China))

Complex reactor physics investigations of thorium containing liquid fuel
Hron, M. (Nuclear Research Institute Rez plc, Rez (Czech Republic))

Assessment of 232Th nuclear data through critical experiments using the Kyoto University critical assembly
Shiroya, S.; Unesaki, H.; Misawa, T. (Kyoto University, Osaka (Japan))

Thorium-based fuel design for incineration of excess weapon grade plutonium in existing PWRs
Galperin, A. (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel)); Todosow, M. (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY (United States))

The Indian perspective on thorium fuel cycles
Balakrishnan, K.; Majumdar, S.; Ramanujam, A.; Kakodkar, A. (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai (India))

Thorium fuel for LWRs and innovative concepts: State of the art at the CEA/DRN
Porta, J.; Baldi, S. (CE Cadarache, Saint Paul lez Durance (France)); Puill, A. (CE Saclay, Gif sur Yvette (France)); Huet, F. (CE Grenoble (France))

Some peculiarities of thorium dioxide-base fuel production at NSC KIPT
Odeychuk, N.P.; Zelensky, V.F.; Konotop, Yu.F.; Gurin, V.A. (National Science Center 'Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology', Kharkov (Ukraine))

An ultimate fission energy system option for the next generation - The AMBIDEXTER nuclear complex
Oh, Se Kee; Chung, Kunmo (Energy System Research Center, Ajou University, Suwon (Korea, Republic of))

Perspective of thorium research and boron carbide coating of urania-gadolinia fuel in Turkey
Disbudak, H. (Technology Department, Turkish Atomic Energy Authority, Ankara (Turkey))

Potential advantages and drawbacks of the thorium fuel cycle in relation to current practice: A BNFL view
Wilson, P.D. (BNFL, Sellafield, Seascale (United Kingdom)); Ainsworth, K.F. (BNFL, Risley, Warrington, Cheshire (United Kingdom))

On some issues of thorium fuel cycle study
Troyanov, M.F. (Institute of Physics and Power Engineering, Obninsk (Russian Federation))

The non-proliferative commercial Radkowsky thorium fuel concept
Higatsberger, M.J. (Institute for Experimental Physics, University of Vienna (Austria))

Development requirements in reprocessing thorium fuels
Wilson, P.D. (British Nuclear Fuels plc, Sellafield, Seascale, Cumbria (United Kingdom))