Publications

Publications by ThorEA members:

Towards an Alternative Nuclear Future
ThorEA Organisation Report
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Accelerator-Driven Subcritical Reactor: ‘Straw-Man’ Design Concept Development
Steven J Steer
Working Paper
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Predicting the Cost of Unplanned Shutdowns of Power Stations: An Accelerator-Driven Subcritical Reactor Case Study
Steven J Steer, William J Nuttall, Geoffrey T Parks and Leonardo VN Gonçalves
University of Cambridge Electricity Policy Research Group Working Paper EPRG0927
submitted to Electric Power Systems Research
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Hedging Against Technology Risks of the Accelerator System of a First-of-a-Kind Accelerator-Driven Subcritical Reactor
Steven J Steer, Michel-Alexandre Cardin, William J Nuttall, Geoffrey T Parks and Leonardo VN Gonçalves
University of Cambridge Electricity Policy Research Group Working Paper EPRG1013
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Minimizing the Cost of Innovative Nuclear Technology Through Flexibility: The Case of a Demonstration Accelerator-Driven Subcritical Reactor Park
Michel-Alexandre Cardin, Steven J Steer, William J Nuttall, Geoffrey T Parks, Leonardo VN Gonçalves and Richard de Neufville
University of Cambridge Electricity Policy Research Group Working Paper EPRG1018
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Report of ThorEA Roadmapping Activity
Steven J Steer for ThorEA
University of Cambridge, Working Paper
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Assessing the Economic Value of Constructing Multiple Accelerators for an Accelerator-Driven Subcritical Reactor
Steven J Steer, Michel-Alexandre Cardin, William J Nuttall, Geoffrey T Parks and Leonardo VN Gonçalves
to appear in Proc. OECD Nuclear Energy Agency International Workshop on Technology and Components of Accelerator Driven Systems, Karlsruhe (2010)

A Comparison of ADSR Concepts for Power Generation
Leonardo VN Gonçalves, Ali Ahmad, Geoffrey T Parks, William J Nuttall and Steven J Steer
to appear in Proc. OECD Nuclear Energy Agency International Workshop on Technology and Components of Accelerator Driven Systems, Karlsruhe (2010)

Isotope Equilibrium in Fast Thorium Reactors
David J Coates and Geoffrey T Parks
to appear in Proc. OECD Nuclear Energy Agency International Workshop on Technology and Components of Accelerator Driven Systems, Karlsruhe (2010)

Actinide Evolution and Equilibrium in Fast Thorium Reactors
David J Coates and Geoffrey T Parks
Annals of Nuclear Energy Vol. 37, pp. 1076–1088 (2010)