Harnessing Thorium

Discover the untapped potential of thorium and embark on a journey towards a sustainable and cleaner energy future with "Harnessing Thorium: A Path to Sustainable Nuclear Energy." In this groundbreaking book, delve into the depths of thorium's remarkable properties and explore its potential to revolutionize the world of nuclear power generation. Thorium, a naturally abundant and highly efficient fuel source, holds the key to unlocking a new era of clean and safe nuclear energy. This book takes you on an enlightening expedition through the science, history, and future of thorium, revealing its advantages over traditional uranium-based nuclear reactors. From its inherent safety features to its extended fuel availability, thorium has the power to reshape the way we harness the atom. "Harnessing Thorium" provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of thorium's potential as a sustainable energy solution. Dive into the exciting world of advanced reactor designs, explore thorium fuel cycles, and discover the groundbreaking research shaping the future of nuclear energy. But this book goes beyond the theoretical. It explores the economic viability, environmental benefits, and technological advancements associated with thorium power. Gain insights into the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, the minimization of long-lived radioactive waste, and the potential for thorium to enhance energy security and reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. Whether you are an energy professional, a policy maker, a researcher, or a concerned citizen passionate about a sustainable future, "Harnessing Thorium" empowers you with the knowledge to be a catalyst for change. Engage with thought-provoking discussions, explore real-world case studies, and unlock the true potential of thorium as a game-changing energy source. If you are ready to challenge the status quo and explore a path towards cleaner, safer, and more abundant nuclear energy, "Harnessing Thorium: A Path to Sustainable Nuclear Energy" is your indispensable guide. Join the movement towards a brighter energy future, and be inspired to make a lasting impact on our world.

This book comprises selected proceedings of the ThEC15 conference. The book presents research findings on various facets of thorium energy, including exploration and mining, thermo-physical and chemical properties of fuels, reactor physics, challenges in fuel fabrication, thorium fuel cycles, thermal hydraulics and safety, material challenges, irradiation experiences, and issues and challenges for the design of advanced thorium fueled reactors. Thorium is more abundant than uranium and has the potential to provide energy to the world for centuries if used in a closed fuel cycle. As such, technologies for using thorium for power generation in nuclear reactors are being developed worldwide. Since there is a strong global thrust towards designing nuclear reactors with thorium-based fuel, this book will be of particular interest to nuclear scientists, reactor designers, regulators, academics and policymakers.

A riveting look at how an alternative source of energy is revoluntionising nuclear power, promising a safe and clean future for millions, and why thorium was sidelined at the height of the Cold War In this groundbreaking account of an energy revolution in the making, award-winning science writer Richard Martin introduces us to thorium, a radioactive element and alternative nuclear fuel that is far safer, cleaner, and more abundant than uranium. At the dawn of the Atomic Age, thorium and uranium seemed to be in close competition as the fuel of the future. Uranium, with its ability to undergo fission and produce explosive material for atomic weapons, won out over its more pacific sister element, relegating thorium to the dustbin of science. Now, as we grapple with the perils of nuclear energy and rogue atomic weapons, and mankind confronts the specter of global climate change, thorium is re-emerging as the overlooked energy source as a small group of activists and outsiders is working, with the help of Silicon Valley investors, to build a thorium-power industry. In the first book mainstream book to tackle these issues, Superfuel is a story of rediscovery of a long lost technology that has the power to transform the world's future, and the story of the pacifists, who were sidelined in favour of atomic weapon hawks, but who can wean us off our fossil-fuel addiction and avert the risk of nuclear meltdown for ever.

This book, the second of two volumes, continues the authors’ ground-breaking re-examination of India’s history and political economy. This volume describes the economic fortunes of India in the second half of the 20th century. Beginning with the reconstruction of the Planning Commission and India's hybrid model of economic planning, the authors describe the multiple shocks weathered by the system before being replaced with a fully free market model after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Chapters consider the stresses placed on India’s organisation by the shocks of the twentieth century, from its experiments with a socialist economy to its embrace of the Washington consensus in the 1980s. The impact of the invasion of China in 1962 and India’s struggle to find its feet post-partition are also given detailed analysis. The book’s unique perspective helps to shed light, for the first time, on how India’s organisational structure negotiated the country’s immense historical and cultural inheritance with the stresses of a twentieth century nation state.

Micelles are prevalent in naturally occurring and biological catalytic reactions. However, it is only in recent decades that scientists have developed kinetic models clarifying how micelle-mediated catalysis works at a molecular level. Written by a leading expert in the field, Micellar Catalysis is an in-depth examination of how micelles affect rea

Energy security has become a central concern for all the countries in the Asian region and the search for sufficient sources of energy to fuel economic growth has drastically influenced relations among the South Asian countries as well as their respective relations with their neighbours China, Myanmar, Iran, and Afghanistan. The recent nuclear deal between India and the US is also indicative of how energy and power politics are linked and how these new inter-linkages underlie relations between states. This book aims to give a South Asian perspective on the geopolitics of energy, with a central focus on India. The chapters address how India's global and regional foreign policy making has changed in light of India's search for energy and how this is affecting the relationship on a global level between India and the US, as well as on a regional level between India and the other Asian countries. The book also offers views from Pakistan and Bangladesh, as well as how this shifting reality is affecting relations between India and Southeast Asia.

This book contains the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Physics Beyond the Standard Models of Particle Physics, Cosmology and Astrophysics. It presents a brilliant overview of the status and future potential and trends in experimental and theoretical particle physics, cosmology and astrophysics, in the complimentary sectors of accelerator, non-accelerator and space physics. Contents:TeV Physics and Conformality (T Appelquist)Searches for New Heavy Quarks with the CMS Detector at the LHC(S Costantini)Search for Dark Matter Candidates with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC (R Mazini)Measurement of Little Higgs Parameters at International Linear Collider (Y Takubo et al.)Recent Issues in Leptogenesis (M Losada)Anomaly Driven Signatures of Extra U(1)'s (I Antoniadis et al.)Cosmic Inflation Meets Particle Physics (S Antusch et al.)Double Beta Decay and Beyond Standard Model Particle Physics(H V Klapdor-Kleingrothaus & I V Krivosheina)The Magic of Four Zero Neutrino Yukawa Textures (P Roy)Sensitivity to Sterile Neutrino Mixings and the Discovery Channel at a Neutrino Factory (O Yasuda)Status of the T2K Experiment (A Bravar)Determining Dark Energy (C Clarkson)Cosmological k-Essence Condensation (N Bilic et al.)Signals from the Dark Universe: New Results From DAMA/LIBRA(R Bernabei et al.)Early Scientific Results and Future Prospects for the Rejuvenated HUBBLE Space Telescope (M B Niedner)Synthesis and Study of Superheavy Elements (A G Popeko)On the Threshold of Gravitational Wave Astronomy (P Aufmuth)and other papers Readership: Advanced undergraduates and graduate students, and physicists working in the field of particle physics and astrophysics. Keywords:Beyond Standard Models;Particle Physics;Astrophysics;Cosmology;Accelerator;Non-Accelerator;Space PhysicsKey Features:These are no competing titlesProminents authors from all over the world cover the most exciting fields of particle physics and cosmology, both theoretically and experimentallyHighly valuable as textbook for students

This book focuses on the issue of ‘resurgence of nuclear power’ and discusses the feasibility of nuclear in the energy mix of Asian economies. It discusses nuclear energy sector in detail in the context of India, a country where currently overseas supply of hydrocarbon fuels plays a major role in meeting the domestic energy needs. The book presents an in-depth analysis of nuclear energy policy as well as regional and global politics surrounding the nuclear industry, and the relevance of nuclear energy from the low-carbon energy perspective. To do so, it explores three different perspectives. To start with, the resurgence of nuclear power is discussed from a global energy perspective to understand whether and how it has been increasingly gaining policy attention among Asian economies. Secondly, it highlights the role of nuclear power in Asia and examines how the collaboration with the global nuclear sector is influencing that role. While the epicentre of nuclear power growth can be seen shifting to the Global East, there is a growing need for strengthening the industry, its legal and regulatory infrastructure and knowledge management. The third perspective focuses on the challenges and opportunities for the nuclear power industry and explores, to what extent the public perception is in favor of nuclear sector in the region. The perceived risks of nuclear power, public perception related to legal and regulatory issues, and concerns regarding land acquisition for nuclear facilities are also discussed. The book contains contributions from specialists in the global energy and nuclear sector, and examines some of the most sought-after topics related to the energy policy studies, especially in the Asian context.