Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 749736, 13 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/749736
Research Article

The Use of Th in HTR: State of the Art and Implementation in Th/Pu Fuel Cycles

Guido Mazzini,1 Eleonora Bomboni,1 Nicola Cerullo,1,2 Emil Fridman,3 Guglielmo Lomonaco,1,2 and Eugene Shwageraus4

1Department of Mechanical, Nuclear and Production Engineering (DIMNP), University of Pisa, CIRTEN, Largo L. Lazzarino No. 2, 56126 Pisa, Italy
2Energy and Environmental Conditioning Department (DIPTEM), University of Genova, Via all'Opera Pia No. 15/a, 16145 Genova, Italy
3Accident Analysis Division (FWSS), Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (FZD), P.O. Box 51 01 19, 01314 Dresden, Germany
4Department of Nuclear Engineering , Ben Gurion University of the Negev, P.O. Box 653, 84105 Beer Sheva, Israel

Received 28 March 2009; Accepted 1 September 2009

Academic Editor: Jim Kuijper

Copyright © 2009 Guido Mazzini et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

How to Cite this Article

Guido Mazzini, Eleonora Bomboni, Nicola Cerullo, Emil Fridman, Guglielmo Lomonaco, and Eugene Shwageraus, “The Use of Th in HTR: State of the Art and Implementation in Th/Pu Fuel Cycles,” Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations, vol. 2009, Article ID 749736, 13 pages, 2009. doi:10.1155/2009/749736