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Table of contents (81 papers)
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Front Matter
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Invited Speakers: Opening Talks
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Invited Speakers: National and International Thorium Programmes
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Invited Speakers: Innovative Thorium-Reactor Concepts
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Keywords
- Accelerator Driven Systems
- Accelerator Technology
- Destruction of Nuclear Waste
- Elimination of Nuclear Waste
- Safety Regulations of Thorium Systems
- ThEC13 Proceedings
- Thorium Energy Systems
- Thorium Energy Technologies
- Thorium Fuel Cycle
- Thorium Power Reactors
- Thorium Fuel Cycle and Non-proliferation
- Thorium Molten Salt Reactors
- Accelerator Developments
About this book
The Thorium Energy Conference (ThEC13) gathered some of the world’s leading experts on thorium technologies to review the possibility of destroying nuclear waste in the short term, and replacing the uranium fuel cycle in nuclear systems with the thorium fuel cycle in the long term. The latter would provide abundant, reliable and safe energy with no CO2 production, no air pollution, and minimal waste production.
The participants, representatives of 30 countries, included Carlo Rubbia, Nobel Prize Laureate in physics and inventor of the Energy Amplifier; Jack Steinberger, Nobel Prize Laureate in physics; Hans Blix, former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Rolf Heuer, Director General of CERN; Pascal Couchepin, former President of the Swiss Confederation; and Claude Haegi, President of the FEDRE, to name just a few.
The ThEC13 proceedings are a source of reference on the use of thorium for energy generation. They offer detailed technical reviews of the status of thorium energy technologies, from basic R&D to industrial developments.
They also describe how thorium can be used in critical reactors and in subcritical accelerator-driven systems (ADS), answering the important questions:
– Why is thorium so attractive and what is the role of innovation, in particular in the nuclear energy domain?
– What are the national and international R&D programs on thorium technologies and how are they progressing?
ThEC13 was organized jointly by the international Thorium Energy Committee (iThEC), an association based in Geneva, and the International Thorium Energy Organisation (IThEO). It was held in the Globe of Science and Innovation at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland, in October 2013.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Thorium Energy for the World
Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the ThEC13 Conference, CERN, Globe of Science and Innovation, Geneva, Switzerland, October 27-31, 2013
Editors: Jean-Pierre Revol, Maurice Bourquin, Yacine Kadi, Egil Lillestol, Jean-Christophe de Mestral, Karel Samec
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26542-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-26540-7Published: 06 April 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79968-1Published: 25 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-26542-1Published: 05 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: LII, 446
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 253 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Energy, Energy Systems