Announcing the Thorium Energy Conference – ThEC13 in Geneva

The next Thorium Energy Conference - ThEC13 in Geneva - will be held at CERN from October 27 to 31, 2013 in the Globe of Science and Innovation. It will be organized in partnership with the newly founded international Thorium Energy Committee (iThEC).

Our local partner iThEC (international Thorium Energy Committee), which constitutes of various Geneva personalities of whom many are closely related to CERN, will ensure the conference is a success through their local and international experience.

The purpose of ThEC13 is to review the status of thorium energy technologies, from R&D to industrial developments. It will cover front-end and back-end of the thorium fuel cycle, the use of thorium in critical reactors and in Accelerator Driven Systems (ADS), with particular emphasis on accelerator developments and the destruction of nuclear waste.
Following the success of the previous ThEC10 (UK), ThEC11 (USA) and ThEC12 (China), iThEC will use the opportunity and bring together regional actors in the development of thorium energy systems in order to obtain an overview of the activities and promote cooperation.

At present the organizers are contacting international advisors in the development of thorium energy systems in order to get their advice on topics and potential speakers.
Readers of this announcement are encouraged to propose topics and speakers. Such proposals will be considered when deciding on the conference programme.
Please send your proposal to ThEC13@itheo.org
Further information will be made available soon at our ThEC13 pageor at the CERN ThEC13 page.
We look forward to welcoming you to ThEC13 in Geneva!
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ThEC13 page CERN
CERN Globe of Science and Innovation
ThEC13 page IThEO
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