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SUMMARY:How Thorium Could Save the Planet - Professor Robert Cywinski\, Sc
 hool of Applied Sciences\, University of Huddersfield
DTSTART:20111114T193000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Nigel Bennee
DESCRIPTION:*Towards an alternative nuclear future: *\nThere are very stro
 ng arguments that nuclear power has a crucial role to play in the global d
 rive for cleaner energy. However\, it is equally clear that there remain c
 oncerns about safety\, sustainability\, waste management and proliferation
 . In this talk I will show how these concerns could be alleviated by movin
 g from a nuclear industry based upon uranium and plutonium fuel cycles to 
 one based upon the element thorium. Methods of deploying thorium fuel will
  be presented\, and in particular it will be proposed that nuclear power g
 eneration based upon an innovative accelerator driven subcritical nuclear 
 reactor technology fuelled by thorium may offer an acceptable way forward.
LOCATION:Wolfson Lecture Theatre\, Churchill College\, Storey's Way\, Camb
 ridge
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