Date: April 16, 2014 at 6:30PM
Cost: FREE and Refreshments provided.
Location: Town of Ajax Library, Main Branch, 55 Harwood Avenue South (Next to Town Hall)
Resource: Presentation Slide. (Click to download).
Presenter: Paul Acchione, P.Eng., President & Chair of OSPE.

The Seminar will discuss on how we can burn our used fuel waste in a fast neutron reactor to make energy. The presentation is one hour long followed by a Q&A period and will provide information from OSPE’s energy advocacy studies, including:

•        The CANDU and PWR (open) fuel cycles in Canada and USA

•        Spent fuel properties of current CANDU and PWR reactors

•        Usable components of used fuel and how they can be extracted

•        The difference between thermal and fast neutron reactors

•        Difference between thorium and uranium fast neutron reactors

•        Reducing life time and radio-toxicity of used fuel

•        Advantages of reprocessing used fuel to generate energy