Simplified vision of an accelerator-driven energy amplifier conencted to a national grid.
Welcome to the Thorium Energy Amplifier Wiki
The ThorEA wiki is a repository for information about thorium energy amplifiers. It is maintained by the Thorium Energy Amplifier (ThorEA) organisation, www.thorea.org
Table of Contents
- Thorium (Th)
- Research and Development (R&D)
- Resources
- Gamma Rays Aassociated with the Thorium Fuel Cycle
- High-Energy γ Rays
- Gamma‑Ray Activity in Spent Thorium Fuel
- Fuel Storage
Thermal, Epithermal and Fast Neutron Spectra
- General Propertie of Key Fissile and Breeder Nuclei
- Selected Nuclear Data
Criticality and Reactor Control
- Conditions for Criticaility
- Negative Doppler Reactivity Feedback
- Voiding
Actinide Abundance in the Thorium Fuel Cycle
- Plutonium Abundance
- Actinide Evolution and Equilibrium in the Thermal and Fast Fuel Cycles
- The Role of Protactinium
- "Dirty Bombs"
- Enriched Thorium?
- Man-made Fissile Isotopes
- Plutonium
- Summary of Physical Properties of Typical Coolants
- Sodium
- Lead
- Lead-Bismuth Eutectic (LBE)
- Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
- Helium (He)
- Water (H2O)
- The Spallation Reaction
- Neutron Yield from Spallation
- Choices for the Target Material
- Requirements
- Energy
- Beam Currents
- Beam Particles
- Reliability
- Accelerator Technologies
- Linear Accelerators
- Cyclotrons
- Synchrotrons
- FFAGs
- Principals of Economic Cost-Benefit Analysis
- The Expected Cost of Constructing and Operating ADSRs
Status of the ThorEA Wikia
April 2010
The ThorEA wikia has been created. Information pertaining to all Physical, Engineering, Economic and Social factors associated with Accelerator-Driven Subcritical Reactors (also known as Energy Amplifiers) has begun being uploaded.
StevenjSteer 13:36, April 22, 2010 (UTC)