Thorium fuel cycle for nuclear power generation has been considered since the very start of the nuclear power era. In spite of a very large amount of research, experimentation, pilot scale and prototypic scale installations, the thorium fuel was not adopted for large scale power generation [1,2]. This paper reviews the developments over the years on the front and the back-end of the thorium fuel cycle and describes the pros and cons of employing the thorium fuel cycle for large generation of nuclear power. It examines the feasibility and desirability of employing the thorium fuel cycle in concert with the uranium fuel cycle for power generation.
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Sehgal, B. R. (2010). Feasibility and desirability of employing the thorium fuel cycle for power generation. In International Conference on the Physics of Reactors 2010, PHYSOR 2010 (Vol. 3, pp. 1951–1973). American Nuclear Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26542-1_12
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