Thorium Energy for the World : Proceedings of the ThEC13 Conference, CERN, Globe of Science and Innovation, Geneva, Switzerland, October 27-31, 2013 / edited by Jean-Pierre Revol, Maurice Bourquin, Yacine Kadi, Egil Lillestol, Jean-Christophe de Mestral, Karel Samec.

• Part I Invited Speakers: Opening Talks -- Part II Invited Speakers: National and International Thorium Programmes -- Part III Invited Speakers: Innovative Thorium-Reactor Concepts -- Part IV. Invited Speakers: Thorium-Fuel Cycle and Transmutation -- Part V. Invited Speakers: Thorium-Reactor Physics -- Part VI Invited Speakers: Accelerator-Driven Systems -- Part VII. Summary of the Round Table Discussion -- Part VIII. Conclusion -- Part IX. Posters: National and International Thorium Programmes -- Part X. Posters: Innovative Thorium-Reactor Concepts -- Part XI. Posters: Thorium-Fuel Cycle and Transmutation -- Part XII. Posters: Thorium Reactor Physics -- Part XIII. Posters: Accelerator-Driven Systems. 

• The Thorium Energy Conference (ThEC13) gathered some of the world’s leading experts on thorium technologies to review the possibility of destroying nuclear waste in the short term, and replacing the uranium fuel cycle in nuclear systems with the thorium fuel cycle in the long term. The latter would provide abundant, reliable and safe energy with no CO2 production, no air pollution, and minimal waste production. The participants, representatives of 30 countries, included Carlo Rubbia, Nobel Prize Laureate in physics and inventor of the Energy Amplifier; Jack Steinberger, Nobel Prize Laureate in physics; Hans Blix, former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Rolf Heuer, Director General of CERN; Pascal Couchepin, former President of the Swiss Confederation; and Claude Haegi, President of the FEDRE, to name just a few. The ThEC13 proceedings are a source of reference on the use of thorium for energy generation. They offer detailed technical reviews of the status of thorium energy technologies, from basic R&D to industrial developments. They also describe how thorium can be used in critical reactors and in subcritical accelerator-driven systems (ADS), answering the important questions: Why is thorium so attractive and what is the role of innovation, in particular in the nuclear energy domain? What are the national and international R&D programs on thorium technologies and how are they progressing? ThEC13 was organized jointly by the international Thorium Energy Committee (iThEC), an association based in Geneva, and the International Thorium Energy Organisation (IThEO). It was held in the Globe of Science and Innovation at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland, in October 2013. 

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Nuclear energy  (LCSH)

Nuclear physics  (LCSH)

Heavy ions  (LCSH)

Hadrons  (LCSH)

Electric power production  (LCSH)

Nuclear engineering  (LCSH)

Nuclear fuels  -- Congresses (LCSH)

Thorium  -- Isotopes -- Congresses (LCSH)

Nuclear energy  -- Congresses (LCSH)

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Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons 

Nuclear Energy 

Nuclear Engineering 

Energy Technology 

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