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To burn exisiting waste- stockpiles To produce less waste with no new Plutonium Increased safety margins / Superior material properties Longer cycles / economy Building a U233-mine Benifical transition to nuclear sustainability 5-10 years
No feedstock limitations / closed cycle ZERO long lived waste produced (<700yrs) Waste volume reduced by 95% Extremely proliferation resistant 20-25 years
Light Water Reactors are, and will be, the backbone of nuclear power generation
Increased Plutonium destruction (up to 60% more than with U-MOX) Building a U-233 mine - with reprocessing it is multiple recycleable in LWRs Zero new long lived waste (MA or Pu) produced Less dependency on Uranium resources Evolutionary step towards closed, breeding Th232-U233-cycle in Advanced-LWRs Fuel can be fabricated in conventional MOX-facilities with very little modification Fuel can be licensed and used as present day MOX-fuel in reactors
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Global fuel vendor Fuel mfg competence Regulatory experience Future fuel mfg? USA / Sweden
Fuel & test designer Developing fuel technology Project coordinator Norway
Partners:
Test fuel manufacturing Material provider Nuclear competence England Provider of pellets, phase 1 Th-experience
Financing
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T1
Th-MOX, minPu:
-8-12% Pu / Th -Maximise value of fissile material -Core loading schemes -U233 for future use -All MOX-nations, old & new
Th-MOX, maxPu:
-15-22% Pu / Th -Maximise destruction of Pu stockpile -Superior capacity (60%) over U-MOX -UK & USA (?)
High burnup:
~20% Pu/Th in SiC -100 Gwd burn up -Much higher value from the Th -Utilising U233 -All LWRs (15+ years)
Th-MOX2:
-For Gen2 RgPu -Higher wt-loading of Pu possible -Existing MOX-nations
Th-U233:
-Future closed cycle -RBWR-platform -Repro tech required -U233 disposition? -Feasible alternative to FBR
2012: Th-Ce-pellets w. Ni
10/29/2013
EB weld
Plenum spring
1 mm thermocouple
10/29/2013
Experiment execution;
Phase 1a:
2 pins with 85%Th - 15%Pu pellets made by ITU, Germany 2 pins with 7%Th 93%UOX made by IFE, Norway 1 pin with 65%Th 35%UOX made by IFE, Norway 1 UOX reference pin Test rig #1 Loaded into Halden Reactor, April 2013 !
Phase 1b:
2 pins with 86%Th 14%Pu made by IFE, Norway Replacing Th-U pins in Test rig #1 Loading into Halden Reactor, April 2014
Phase 2:
8 pins with 86%Th 14%Pu made by NNL, UK 2 pins UOX reference 2 pins MOX reference Test rig #2 Loading into Halden Reactor, Oct 2015
The Thor Energy Alpha Lab (Comissioning Dec. 2013): Pellet Manufacturing Phase 1b PuO2ThO2 Pellets
Thor Energy Alpha Fuel Manufacturing Lab Replicates industrial MIMAS type mfg line Comissioning Dec 2013, Mfg in Q1 2014 Plans for advanced pellet work for 2015 onwards
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