Thorium nuclear fuel testing continues

摘要

The second test round of a five-year thorium-based nuclear fuel irradiation project has begun at Norway's Halden research reactor, southeast of Oslo, the International Thorium Energy Organisation (IThEO) has said. This second phase of the project will verify test results from the first round, carried out in 2013, and form "a further step" towards the potential commercial use of thorium as a supplement fuel in conventional nuclear reactors. The second phase is expected to produce unique data that shows how the fuel ceramic behaves during long periods of operation in a reactor core under various conditions.