Generation IV reactors are a set of theoretical nuclear reactor designs currently being researched. These designs are generally not expected to be available for commercial construction before 2030. Current reactors in operation around the world are generally considered second- or third-generation systems, with the first-generation systems having been retired some time ago. Research into these reactor types was officially started by the Generation IV International Forum (GIF) based on eight technology goals. The primary goals being to improve nuclear safety, improve proliferation resistance, minimize waste and natural resource utilization, and to decrease the cost to build and run such plants.
Generation V+ reactors
Generation V reactors are designs which are theoretically possible, but which are not being actively considered or researched at present. Though such reactors could be built with current or near term technology, they trigger little interest for reasons of economics, practicality, or safety.
Thorium Molten Salt Reactors
This is the biggest golly gee-whiz technology on the planet. There have been a few research reactors of this type, and there is currently one recently-constructed MSR in operation.
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Presidential Candidate Yang Commits To The Fuel That Trumps Them All - Thorium!
Another strike against Yang. We have the technologies we need to combat Global Warming, but he wants to divert $50 billion to a pie-in-the-sky project.
Yang also proposes free money for the prosperous, and dinging the poor by docking their current welfare benefits from their monthly check. More precisely, recipients have to pick one or the other. Now, if he were offering enough money to get the poor out of poverty, so that they didn't qualify for welfare, there wouldn't be a problem.
Researchers at NRG, a Dutch nuclear materials firm, have begun the first tests of nuclear fission using thorium salts since experiments ended at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the early 1970s.
[China] plans to have the first such power plants hooked up to the grid inside 15 years.
Thorium Molten Salt Reactor Experiment Underway in the Netherlands
Oct 1, 2017 - Scientists at the Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group (NRG) in Petten, Netherlands, have commenced the world’s first thorium molten salt reactor (TMSR) experiment in more than 45 years (Figure 1). The SALt Irradiation ExperimeNT, or SALIENT, was developed in cooperation with ...
A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time in Four ...
Aug 18, 2017 - On August 10, 2017, a set of concentric sealed tubes was entered into the core of the High Flux Reactor in Petten, Netherlands. In the smallest ...
The Petten nuclear reactors are nuclear research reactors in Petten, Netherlands. There are two reactors on the premises of the Petten research centre.
In 2019 [2017], a report was sent out that the Petten reactor reactor will be renamed to SALIENT and will become a thorium molten salt reactor.[9]
Wow, Wikipedia contains an error. I checked the reference and fixed the date.
Thorium Reactor Tests - Better World Solutions
Feb 14, 2019 - The Integral Molten Salt Reactor is flexible, redundant, passive and ... testing at NRG's High-Flux Reactor at Petten in the Netherlands.
Press Release - Thorium Energy World
Aug 19, 2018 - China Invests Big in Clean and Cheap Energy from Thorium ... Netherlands, have begun the world's first thorium molten salt reactor experiment ...
ThorCon: Powering up our world with cheap, reliable, CO2-free electric power, now.
For a rather large value of now. The announced timeline for ThorCon's proposed Indonesia project will take a minimum of 8 years.
Thorium power has a protactinium problem
In 1980, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) observed that protactinium, a chemical element generated in thorium reactors, could be separated and allowed to decay to isotopically pure uranium 233—suitable material for making nuclear weapons.
Flibe Energy: We Stand at the Dawn of the Thorium Age
The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor is the key to producing life saving cancer treatments and clean, reliable, sustainable energy.
Are there any active thorium reactors?
Yes, in the Netherlands.
Is a thorium reactor possible?
Not only possible, but as above actual. However,
Underling: Sir, may I suggest…
Overling: Of course!
Underling: Thank you, Sir. Well, then, how about…?
Overling: No.
Spike Milligan, The Goon Show, BBC Radio
Does Netherlands have nuclear power?
Nuclear power has a small role in the Dutch electricity supply, with the Borssele reactor providing about 4% of total generation.
Global Thorium Reactor Market Growth 2019-2024
All the thorium-capable reactor systems applies a basic design principle in thorium fuel systems is that of heterogeneous fuel arrangement, wherein a high fissile fuel zone called the seed region is physically separated from the fertile thorium part of the fuel known as blanket. Such an arrangement is better for supplying surplus neutrons to thorium nuclei so they can convert to fissile U-233.
According to this study, over the next five years the Thorium Reactor market will register a [data not provided]% CAGR in terms of revenue, the global market size will reach US$[data not provided] million by 2024, from US$[data not provided] million in 2019. In particular, this report presents the global market share (sales and revenue) of key companies in Thorium Reactor business, shared in Chapter 3.