Obama and Thorium
If Barack Obama were to marshal America’s vast scientific and strategic resources behind a new Manhattan Project, he might reasonably hope to reinvent the global energy landscape and sketch an end to our dependence on fossil fuels within three to five years.
Article in Daily Telegraph, 29th August.
Thorium Energy Conference 2010 to be held in London
The 2010 Thorium Energy Conference, sponsored by the International Thorium Energy Organisation, will be held this year at the Royal Institution in London.
The conference will be held from the 18th to 20th October, with a pre-conference reception on Sunday 17th.
“Thorium Energy Conference 2010 provides a unique and convenient, cross-disciplinary platform, for people involved in the field of thorium energy to be introduced, to speak, and to discover.”
More details are available from the Conference Website.
ThorEA report now available
We are pleased to announce that the new ThorEA report, ‘Towards An Alternative Nuclear Future’, is now available to download. Produced in association with the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council and other collaborators, this report outlines our vision for hybrid accelerator-driven nuclear reactors as a safe and sustainable form of low-carbon electricity, which is a technology the UK can exploit in the global marketplace.
Download report (8.5 MB, pdf)
“IAEA warmly welcomes the proposed accelerator driver development programme embodied in the ThorEA project as a positive contribution to the international effort to secure the eventual global deployment of sustainable thorium-fuelled ADSR power generation systems.”
- Alexander Stanculescu, Nuclear Power Technology Development Section, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)