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THOR Energy, a Norwegian nuclear fuel technology company, has developed and is currently testing two new thorium-based fuels for use in existing nuclear power plants—the ThADD and the ThMOX fuels. In the effort to license these fuels, the company has initiated an internationally supported fuel campaign, which includes a 5 year irradiation trial at the Halden test reactor in Norway.
Øystein Asphjell presented this paper at the Thorium Energy Conference 2013 (ThEC13)
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The Seven Thirty thorium fuel irradiation consortium is grateful for support from the Norwegian Research Council through its program for user-driven research-based innovation (BIA). The authors would like to thank the many IFE employees who have been crucial in enabling this experiment, in particular Margaret McGrath. We also thank Joseph Somers at JRC-ITU for valued technical insight.
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Drera, S.S., Kelly, J.F., Asphjell, Ø., Björk, K.I. (2016). Overview of the Thor Energy Thorium Fuel Development Program. In: Revol, JP., Bourquin, M., Kadi, Y., Lillestol, E., de Mestral, JC., Samec, K. (eds) Thorium Energy for the World. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26542-1_24
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