Thorium Energy Conference ThEC13, 27-31 October, 2013

[crowberry]

CERN will host the Thorium Energy Conference ThEC13 on 27-31 October,
2013. Nobel laureate in physics Carlo Rubbia will start the conference
and there is a large amount of interesting presentations by many people
from all over the world:
http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceTimeTab ... l.detailed
This conference will be webcasted so you can follow the presentations
if you are interested to.

[crowberry]

The upcoming Thorium Energy Conference 2013 is organized by the International Thorium Energy Organisation, IThEO, http://www.itheo.org/
and international Thorium Energy Committee, iThEC, http://www.ithec.org/
There is quite a lot of thorium related information and news available on those pages. Some of the presentations from previous Thorium Energy Conferences are available from the following links:

Thorium Energy Conference - ThEC12
http://www.itheo.org/thorium-energy-conference-2012

Thorium Energy Conference - ThEC11
http://www.itheo.org/thorium-energy-conference-2011

Thorium Energy Conference - ThEC10
http://www.itheo.org/thorium-energy-conference-2010

Thorium Energy Conference - ThEC09
http://itheo.org/thorium-energy-confere ... sentations

It is nice to see that there is significant work going on in this area in several countries. The interesting question is of course whether we will have large scale thorium or fusion power in the future. Thorium is already producing net energy on a small scale but moving forward in the fission area will take a long time, but if some fusion scheme reaches break then there will probably be a large shift in the resources for fusion development.

[paperburn1]

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/1601 ... ree-energy
they are running a reactor right now.

[hanelyp]

Thorium in a conventional reactor. The nuclear waste improvement usually associated with thorium is from the molten salt reactor.

[KitemanSA]

Thorium in a conventional reactor. The nuclear waste improvement usually associated with thorium is from the molten salt reactor.

The waste improvement is typically from not having U238 in the reactor. The PuTh fuel being used does that. Indeed, with a traveling wave type reactor, this might allow a VERY high burn up before refueling. Still nowhere near s good as a LFTR, but a LOT better than typical LEF.