DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Thorium Fuel Cycle: Emerging Opportunities" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. This report is one in a series of three that discuss emerging ...

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However, there are ways to use thorium to create fissile materials suitable for fuel. Thorium-232 is the only naturally occurring thorium isotope, but it is fissionable rather than fissile.

Known as the thorium fuel cycle, this process was once earmarked for far more intensive studies than what eventually transpired. The world's first practical thorium-derived fission reactor was ...

The thorium fuel cycle also produces less long-lived radioactive waste compared to the uranium and plutonium cycle, which potentially makes it much more environmentally friendly too.

Experimental fuel capsules being staged at the Advanced Test Reactor. Source: Clean Core Thorium Energy A ...

Thorium boasts several advantages over the conventional nuclear fuel, uranium-235. Thorium can generate more fissile material (uranium-233) than it consumes while fuelling a water-cooled or ...

Now China wants to use a similar design to build a nuclear future upon thorium fuel rather than uranium fuel. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

However, because the thorium fuel cycle (TFC) poses non-negligible risks of proliferation, the international community and the United States should engage the PRC, the International Atomic Energy ...