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The ThorEA wiki is a repository for information about thorium energy amplifiers. It is maintained by the Thorium Energy Amplifier (ThorEA) organisation, www.thorea.org

Table of Contents
Thorium
 * Thorium (Th)
 * Research and Development (R&D)
 * Resources
 * Gamma Rays Aassociated with the Thorium Fuel Cycle
 * High-Energy &gamma; Rays
 * Gamma‑Ray Activity in Spent Thorium Fuel
 * Fuel Storage

Thermal, Epithermal and Fast Neutron Spectra
 * General Propertie of Key Fissile and Breeder Nuclei
 * Selected Nuclear Data

Criticality and Reactor Control
 * Conditions for Criticaility
 * Negative Doppler Reactivity Feedback
 * Voiding

Actinide Abundance in the Thorium Fuel Cycle
 * Plutonium Abundance
 * Actinide Evolution and Equilibrium in the Thermal and Fast Fuel Cycles
 * The Role of Protactinium

Proliferation
 * "Dirty Bombs"
 * Enriched Thorium?
 * Man-made Fissile Isotopes
 * Plutonium

Coolant
 * Summary of Physical Properties of Typical Coolants
 * Sodium
 * Lead
 * Lead-Bismuth Eutectic (LBE)
 * Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
 * Helium (He)
 * Water (H2O)

Spallation
 * The Spallation Reaction
 * Neutron Yield from Spallation
 * Choices for the Target Material

Accelerators
 * Requirements
 * Energy
 * Beam Currents
 * Beam Particles
 * Reliability
 * Accelerator Technologies
 * Linear Accelerators
 * Cyclotrons
 * Synchrotrons
 * FFAGs

Economics
 * Principals of Economic Cost-Benefit Analysis
 * The Expected Cost of Constructing and Operating ADSRs

April 2010
The ThorEA wikia has been created. Information pertaining to all Physical, Engineering, Economic and Social factors associated with Accelerator-Driven Subcritical Reactors (also known as Energy Amplifiers) has begun being uploaded.

StevenjSteer 13:36, April 22, 2010 (UTC)