Improving the assessment of the proliferation risk of nuclear fuel cycles
by National Research Council (U.S.)., Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council (U.S.)., Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board, National Research Council (U.S.)., Committee on Improving the Assessment of the Proliferation Risk of Nuclear Fuel Cycles, National Research Council (U.S.)
"The material that sustains the nuclear reactions that produce energy can also be used to make nuclear weapons--and therefore, the development of nuclear energy is one of multiple pathways to proliferation for a non-nuclear weapon state. There is a tension between the developmen…
The nuclear fuel cycle is characterised by the wide range of scientific disciplines and technologies it employs. The development of ever more integrated processes across the many stages of the nuclear fuel cycle therefore confronts plant manufacturers and operators with formidab…
At the dawn of the atomic age, uranium and thorium were equally important as the elements of choice in researching nuclear energy - either one could have powered the world's reactors. But it was uranium that won out, and thorium, which is far cleaner, safer, and more abundant th…
"Thorium energy can help us check CO2 and global warming, cut deadly air pollution, provide inexhaustible energy, and increase human prosperity. Our world is beset by global warming, pollution, resource conflicts, and energy poverty. Millions die from coal plant emissions. We wa…