British researchers are helping in an international project to develop a new type of nuclear power station that is safer, more cost-effective, compact, quicker and less disruptive to build than any type previously constructed.
Funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), as part of the Research Councils UK Energy Programme, a team at the University of Cambridge is exploring whether the element thorium could help to meet the new design’s fuel needs. As well as being three to four times more abundant than uranium, thorium could…
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