Thorium energy for the 21st century
Latest News: iThEC hosts the 2013 International
Thorium Conference in cooperation with iThEO.
We look forward to seeing you in Geneva in October 2013. Please download conference poster here.
Our Goal
Promoting the use of Thorium as a safe, sustainable and proliferation-resistant source of nuclear power. Thorium is a viable alternative nuclear fuel to uranium. The goal of iThEC is to raise global awareness of the many possibilities Thorium offers for solving mankind's growing energy needs.
Why Thorium?
- Using Thorium fission instead of Uranium reduces the toxicity and
longevity of nuclear waste
- Thorium can be mixed with radioactive waste from current uranium-fuelled reactors inside new Thorium reactors to reduce the existing stockpile of nuclear waste.
- The waste products from a Thorium-fuelled reactor do not include weapons-grade materials in the amounts required for producing a bomb
- Thorium lends itself to its use in a sub-critical reactor, which operates far from criticality and is inherently safer.
- The decay heat which needs to be cooled after a nuclear reactor is shut down, is less in a Thorium ADS reactor.
- Thorium can be extracted from many parts of the globe, in less politically sensitive regions and in greater quantities than uranium
iThEC is an organisation bringing together
- Scientific and technical knowledge from the world's leading research institutes
- Political decision makers
- Industrial partnerships