Download or read book Harnessing Thorium written by Mike L and published by . This book was released on 2023-06-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the untapped potential of thorium and embark on a journey towards a sustainable and cleaner energy future with "Harnessing Thorium: A Path to Sustainable Nuclear Energy." In this groundbreaking book, delve into the depths of thorium's remarkable properties and explore its potential to revolutionize the world of nuclear power generation. Thorium, a naturally abundant and highly efficient fuel source, holds the key to unlocking a new era of clean and safe nuclear energy. This book takes you on an enlightening expedition through the science, history, and future of thorium, revealing its advantages over traditional uranium-based nuclear reactors. From its inherent safety features to its extended fuel availability, thorium has the power to reshape the way we harness the atom. "Harnessing Thorium" provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of thorium's potential as a sustainable energy solution. Dive into the exciting world of advanced reactor designs, explore thorium fuel cycles, and discover the groundbreaking research shaping the future of nuclear energy. But this book goes beyond the theoretical. It explores the economic viability, environmental benefits, and technological advancements associated with thorium power. Gain insights into the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, the minimization of long-lived radioactive waste, and the potential for thorium to enhance energy security and reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. Whether you are an energy professional, a policy maker, a researcher, or a concerned citizen passionate about a sustainable future, "Harnessing Thorium" empowers you with the knowledge to be a catalyst for change. Engage with thought-provoking discussions, explore real-world case studies, and unlock the true potential of thorium as a game-changing energy source. If you are ready to challenge the status quo and explore a path towards cleaner, safer, and more abundant nuclear energy, "Harnessing Thorium: A Path to Sustainable Nuclear Energy" is your indispensable guide. Join the movement towards a brighter energy future, and be inspired to make a lasting impact on our world.
Download or read book Thorium and the Third Fuel written by Joseph M. Dukert and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thorium Energy for the Future written by A.K. Nayak and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprises selected proceedings of the ThEC15 conference. The book presents research findings on various facets of thorium energy, including exploration and mining, thermo-physical and chemical properties of fuels, reactor physics, challenges in fuel fabrication, thorium fuel cycles, thermal hydraulics and safety, material challenges, irradiation experiences, and issues and challenges for the design of advanced thorium fueled reactors. Thorium is more abundant than uranium and has the potential to provide energy to the world for centuries if used in a closed fuel cycle. As such, technologies for using thorium for power generation in nuclear reactors are being developed worldwide. Since there is a strong global thrust towards designing nuclear reactors with thorium-based fuel, this book will be of particular interest to nuclear scientists, reactor designers, regulators, academics and policymakers.
Download or read book The Use of Thorium in Nuclear Power Reactors written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thorium Fuel Cycle written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a critical review of the thorium fuel cycle: potential benefits and challenges in the thorium fuel cycle, mainly based on the latest developments at the front end of the fuel cycle, applying thorium fuel cycle options, and at the back end of the thorium fuel cycle.
Download or read book Thorium Fuel Cycle written by Raymond G. Wymer and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thorium written by Robert Hargraves and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thorium energy can help check CO2 and global warming, cut deadly air pollution, provide inexhaustible energy, and increase human prosperity. Our world is beset by global warming, pollution, resource conflicts, and energy poverty. Millions die from coal plant emissions. We war over mideast oil. Food supplies from sea and land are threatened. Developing nations' growth exacerbates the crises. Few nations will adopt carbon taxes or energy policies against their economic self-interests to reduce global CO2 emissions. Energy cheaper than coal will dissuade all nations from burning coal. Innovative thorium energy uses economic persuasion to end the pollution, to provide energy and prosperity to developing nations, and to create energy security for all people for all time. "This book presents a lucid explanation of the workings of thorium-based reactors. It is must reading for anyone interested in our energy future." Leon Cooper, Brown University physicist and 1972 Nobel laureate for superconductivity "As our energy future is essential I can strongly recommend the book for everybody interested in this most significant topic." George Olah, 1994 Nobel laureate for carbon chemistry
Download or read book Thorium Energy for the World written by Jean-Pierre Revol and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Metallurgy of Nuclear Fuel written by Василий Семенович Емельянов and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1969 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nuclear Power and Sustainable Development written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transforming the energy system is at the core of the dedicated sustainable development goal on energy within the new United Nations development agenda. This publication explores the possible contribution of nuclear energy to addressing the issues of sustainable development through a large selection of indicators. It reviews the characteristics of nuclear power in comparison with alternative sources of electricity supply, according to economic, social and environmental pillars of sustainability. The findings summarized in this publication will help the reader to consider, or reconsider, the contribution that can be made by the development and operation of nuclear power plants in contributing to more sustainable energy systems.
Download or read book Green Chemistry for Greener Environment written by Dr. Raghvendu Pathak and published by Educreation Publishing. This book was released on with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The residual wilderness & beauty of nature excites not only me but each one of us from our core & any damage to the 'mother earth' wittingly or unwittingly by our own actions certainly move us & create an intrinsic desire to protect our nature & environment. Right from nomadic or pastoral economy to the settled economy & to this date of so called unbridled development for our own comfort, we have been exploiting our nature with unbridled greed & impunity without realizing the fact that these dastardly acts of ours inflict irreparable damage to our 'mother earth' & environment. From industry to chemistry & from desires to development - all lead somehow or other to air, water, soil & several other forms of pollution & finally to global climate change & species extinction. Moreover, the ''evolutes'' from fossil-fuels to those from labs & coal-fired electricity generating units inflict considerable damage to our environment. From this state of desperation & desolation & conflict between so called development & conservation issues, arose a host of committed individuals worldwide who took the onus to protect our environment from further degradation. In fact, damage to the environment over the years has become so savage & brute due to uncontrolled exploitation of the nature, that the environmental protection has become one of the prime concern of the humanity these days. In this context the publication of this book/compilation on 'Green Chemistry for Greener Environment' has become so important.
Download or read book Megawatts and Megatons written by Richard L. Garwin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-12-15 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Megawatts and Megatons, world-renowned physicists Richard L. Garwin and Georges Charpak offer an accessible, eminently well-informed primer on two of the most important issues of our time: nuclear weapons and nuclear power. They begin by explaining clearly and concisely how nuclear fission and fusion work in both warheads and reactors, and how they can impact human health. Making a strong and eloquent argument in favor of arms control, Garwin and Charpak outline specific strategies for achieving this goal worldwide. But they also demonstrate how nuclear power can provide an assured, economically feasible, and environmentally responsible source of energy—in a way that avoids the hazards of weapons proliferation. Numerous figures enliven the text, including cartoons by Sempé.
Download or read book Chemistry and Energy written by Mark Anthony Benvenuto and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-01-19 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the processes and materials behind energy technologies. The author details the underlying chemistry of renewable sources, such as biofuels and wind power, as well as the traditionally used coal and gas. Chapters on energy storage technologies and the connection between energy generation and climate change round off this uniquely concise overview of the relationship between chemistry and energy.
Download or read book Radioisotope Power Systems written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2009-08-14 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spacecraft require electrical energy. This energy must be available in the outer reaches of the solar system where sunlight is very faint. It must be available through lunar nights that last for 14 days, through long periods of dark and cold at the higher latitudes on Mars, and in high-radiation fields such as those around Jupiter. Radioisotope power systems (RPSs) are the only available power source that can operate unconstrained in these environments for the long periods of time needed to accomplish many missions, and plutonium-238 (238Pu) is the only practical isotope for fueling them. Plutonium-238 does not occur in nature. The committee does not believe that there is any additional 238Pu (or any operational 238Pu production facilities) available anywhere in the world.The total amount of 238Pu available for NASA is fixed, and essentially all of it is already dedicated to support several pending missions-the Mars Science Laboratory, Discovery 12, the Outer Planets Flagship 1 (OPF 1), and (perhaps) a small number of additional missions with a very small demand for 238Pu. If the status quo persists, the United States will not be able to provide RPSs for any subsequent missions.
Download or read book A Textbook of Plant Ecology written by RS Shukla | PS Chandel and published by S. Chand Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For B.Sc. II, B.Sc. III, M.Sc. and Competitive Examinations . A brief note on Biosphere II, a self sustaining man-made Ecosystem is added to the chapter on Ecosystem.
Download or read book TID written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
