Contents List of contributors Foreword Preface Nomenclature 1. Introduction: - Historical review of development of Thorium Fuel Cycle, Past Experience, Difficulties Faced, New Interest to Revive the R&D for Thorium Technology, Options for Thorium Technology, References 2. Thorium As a Fuel - Properties of Thorium Fuel, World Reserves, Advantages over Uranium, Exploration and Mining, Thorium Fuel Fabrication, Strategies to Use Thorium in Nuclear Fuel Cycle 3. Thorium irradiation experiences - Irradiation of Thorium in research reactors, PHWRs, PWRs, etc.; Lessons learnt and conclusions 4. Advanced reactor designs with Thorium Fuels - Water Cooled reactor designs - HTR designs with Thorium fuel - MSRs designs with Thorium fuel - Fast reactor designs with Thorium fuel - Physics design of such reactors, validation of the design concepts 5. Safety Issues of Thorium Fuelled Reactors - Safety goals of new reactor designs, accomplishment of safety by new safety systems, validations of safety systems with experiments. 6. Back end of Thorium fuel cycle - Reprocessing issues and experience - Waste management - Non-proliferation aspects 7. Conclusions and Way Forward Skryť popis