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Japanese utility elaborates on thorium plans
Topic Started: 8 Jun 2012, 01:21 AM (44 Views)
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Japanese utility elaborates on thorium plans

Takashi Kamei from the Research Institute for Applied Sciences in Kyoto said that Chubu Electric was starting a research program at its conventional Hamaoka nuclear station to look into deploying thorium in liquid form, in a type of reactor known as a molten salt reactor.

Chubu’s investor relations department said they regard thorium as “one of future possible energy resources.”

“Thank you for contacting us concerning thorium molten salt reactors.

We announced our plan of stepped-up efforts for nuclear R&D on May 31st.

Our plan consists of two parts;

1.We will establish “Nuclear Safety R&D Center” at Hamaoka nuclear power station on July 1st to promote R&D using Nuclear Power plants as R&D fields.

2.Regarding R&D subjects which need broad cooperation between external institutions, we will promote and implement joint research and publicly offered research with institutes and universities.

Subjects of research will include future nuclear energy like thorium rectors. This program will start in 2013. Our main activity will be to support institutions and universities financially.

We consider thorium as one of future possible energy resources, but there are many challenges to be solved toward actual utilization. Therefore we considered basic studies to be very important from a long-term view point and decided to support institutions’ basic study on thorium utilization.

Regards,

Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc. June 7 2012″



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