Thorium-based nuclear power generation is fueled primarily by the nuclear fission of the isotope uranium-233 produced from the fertile element thorium...
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Therefore, about 225,000 tonnes of thorium metal is available for nuclear power program." India is a leader of thorium based research. It is also by far the...
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commercial-scale nuclear power. The half-life of thorium-232 (14 billion years) is more than three times the age of the Earth; thorium-232 therefore occurs...
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The thorium fuel cycle is a nuclear fuel cycle that uses an isotope of thorium, 232 Th, as the fertile material. In the reactor, 232 Th is transmuted into...
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fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR; often pronounced lifter) is a type of molten salt reactor. LFTRs use the thorium fuel cycle with a fluoride-based molten...
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with their three-stage nuclear power programme. In most countries, uranium was relatively abundant and the progress of thorium-based reactors was slow; in...
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tonnes of thorium metal. Thorium Occurrence of thorium List of countries by uranium reserves Thorium fuel cycle Thorium-based nuclear power Thorium Energy...
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issues in the availability of other energy sources. TEA advocates thorium based nuclear power in existing reactors and primarily in next generation reactors...
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reactor Thorium-based nuclear power Traveling-wave reactor (TWR) World Nuclear Industry Status Report Nuclear microreactor An extinct natural nuclear fission...
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against the government's civil nuclear programme at the Supreme Court. India has been making advances in the field of thorium-based fuels, working to design...
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by country Small modular reactor Thorium-based nuclear power World Nuclear Industry Status Report "BAPETEN—Nuclear Energy Regulatory Agency (introduction)"...
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Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (redirect from Homi Bhabha Nuclear Institute)
heavy-water reactor design that is powered by thorium-232 and uranium-233 to power the third stage of India's three-stage nuclear power programme. The AHWR at standard...
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neutron capture by 232Th Thorium has been suggested for use in thorium-based nuclear power. In many countries the use of thorium in consumer products is...
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Subcritical reactor Thorium Energy Alliance Thorium fuel cycle Thorium-based nuclear power "iThEC". iThEC. Retrieved 2014-06-21. "* Thorium Energy Conference...
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experimental nuclear reactor in 1965, in the SNAP-10A mission. Thorium-based nuclear power reactors have also become an area of active research in recent...
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Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions to produce electricity. Nuclear power can be obtained from nuclear fission, nuclear decay and nuclear fusion...
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Nuclear technology portal Nuclear fuel cycle Nuclear power debate Thorium-based nuclear power Cook, Gareth (13 June 2013). "A new way to do nuclear"...
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A nuclear power plant (NPP), also known as a nuclear power station (NPS), nuclear generating station (NGS) or atomic power station (APS) is a thermal power...
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level. The only nuclear state suitable for the development of a nuclear clock using existing technology is thorium-229m, an isomer of thorium-229 and the...
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physicist Carlo Rubbia for the design of a proton accelerator-based thorium nuclear power plant, but was subsequently sold to Jacobs Engineering Group...
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Spent nuclear fuel, occasionally called used nuclear fuel, is nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in a nuclear reactor (usually at a nuclear power plant)...
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Breeder reactor (redirect from Nuclear breeder reactor)
uranium-233 from thorium. Due to the behavior of the various nuclear fuels, a thermal breeder is thought commercially feasible only with thorium fuel, which...
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Electricity sector in India (redirect from Indian Power Sector)
with a detailed, funded, government-approved plan" to focus on thorium-based nuclear power. On 12 August 2021, India's grid-connected electricity generation...
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Nuclear power in Canada is provided by 19 commercial reactors with a net capacity of 13.5 gigawatt (GW), producing a total of 95.6 terawatt-hours (TWh)...
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electricity markets." Thorium fuel cycle Liquid fluoride thorium reactor Thorium Energy Alliance Patel, Sonal (2023-02-01). "Floating Nuclear Power Buoyant on New...
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Energy amplifier (category Nuclear technology)
consumes. Thorium-based nuclear power Muon capture Nuclear transmutation Reed, B. Cameron (2021). "An inter-country comparison of nuclear pile development...
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be powered by a thorium-based molten salt reactor, making it a first thorium-powered container ship and, if completed, the largest nuclear-powered container...
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THTR-300 (redirect from Thorium High Temperature Reactor)
The THTR-300 was a thorium cycle high-temperature nuclear reactor rated at 300 MW electric (THTR-300) in Hamm-Uentrop, Germany. It started operating in...
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Nuclear propulsion includes a wide variety of propulsion methods that use some form of nuclear reaction as their primary power source. Many aircraft carriers...
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Thorium is found in small amounts in most rocks and soils. Soil commonly contains an average of around 6 parts per million (ppm) of thorium. Thorium occurs...
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