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Current status and perspectives of thorium nuclear energy systems, 1; Global trend of the developments for thorium nuclear energy systems

Sasa, Toshinobu   

As a part of the activities of the "Research Committee for Thorium Nuclear System" in the Japan Atomic Energy Society, the characteristics, performance and feasibility of the proposed thorium nuclear systems from recently published open documents were surveyed in order to understand the research and development status of the thorium nuclear system around the world. Research has been conducted in the countries using nuclear power in the world such as India, Asia, Europe, and the United States. Pebble fuel or molten salts (thermal and fast neutron systems) are selected as fuel material. Regarding the core thermal output, proposals were selected from several 100 MW for demo reactors and modular reactor to 5 GW for power reactors. For the feasibility point of view, many proposals are still in the concept study phase, but there are a few concepts which aimed at licensing of already approved the domestic environmental impact assessment.

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