Siklus bahan bakar torium

Siklus bahan bakar torium adalah sebuah siklus bahan bakar nuklir yang menggunakan sebuah isotop torium, unknown element Thorium., sebagai bahan pembiakan. Dalam reaktor, unknown element Thorium. diubah menjadi isotop uranium artifisial fisil ²³³U yang merupakan bahan bakar nuklir.

Lihat pula

Tenaga nuklir berbasis torium
Limbah radioaktif
Sumber daya dan konsumsi energi dunia
Thorium fuel cycle - Potential benefits and challenges, International Atomic Energy Agency

Referensi

Bacaan lanjutan

Kasten, P. R. (1998). "Review of the Radkowsky Thorium reactor concept^{[pranala nonaktif permanen]}" Science & Global Security, 7(3), 237–269.
Duncan Clark (9 September 2011), "Thorium advocates launch pressure group. Huge optimism for thorium nuclear energy at the launch of the Weinberg Foundation", The Guardian
Nelson, A. T. (2012). "Thorium: Not a near-term commercial nuclear fuel". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 68 (5): 33–44. Bibcode:2012BuAtS..68e..33N. doi:10.1177/0096340212459125.
B.D. Kuz'minov, V.N. Manokhin, (1998) "Status of nuclear data for the thorium fuel cycle", IAEA translation from the Russian journal Yadernye Konstanty (Nuclear Constants) Issue No. 3–4, 1997
Thorium and uranium fuel cycles comparison by the UK National Nuclear Laboratory
Fact sheet on thorium Diarsipkan 2013-02-16 di Wayback Machine. at the World Nuclear Association.
Annotated bibliography for the thorium fuel cycle Diarsipkan 2010-10-07 di Wayback Machine. from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues