| 1947-76 |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory(ORNL):
MSR-Program [R&D of Molten-Salt Breeder
Reactor (MSBR)] |
| 1965-69 |
Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment: MSRE
operation (total :26,076 hrs, no accident) at ORNL |
| 1980.10 |
Kazuo Furukawa (KF) etc. invented
AMSB(Accelerator Molten-Salt Breeder) for U233
production from Th. |
| 1981.7 |
Academic Assoc."Thorium-Energy
Research" (Profs. S.Kaya, K.Husimi, E.Nishibori,
N.Saito etc)
Parliament Group for "Thorium Energy" in Govern.
Political.Party (108members) (Mr. S.Nikaido) |
| 1983.6 |
USSR-Kurchatov
Inst.（KI）(Direc.Acad.Alexandrov) proposed
MSR-Coop. Development to KF. |
| 1985.8 |
KF etc. invented
fuel-self-sustainable simple small MSR : FUJI
(without graphite-exchange and continu.
chem..process) |
| 1987.11 |
EdF(Elec de France) decided "no
SUPERPHENIX-No.2"(Pres. Bergougnoux ) and invited
KF for the Th-MSR examination |
| 1988.11 |
ORNL(Direc.Trivelpiece)
proposed to KF the trilateral coop. on MSR with
USSR |
| 1988.12 |
KF prepared at Clamart Inst., EdF:
Report on "THORIMS-NES (Th Molten-Salt Nuclear
Energy Synegetics)" |
| 1991.7 |
USSR-Inst.Theo.Exp.Phys. (ITEP,
Dr.Chuvilo) invited KF for AMSB-study,
BandBelarus-Sosny Sci.Cent., Minsk, too |
| 1992.6 |
US Presi. Bush's Advisor Sci.
&Tech.(Dr.Allan Bromley)encouraged KF
supporting THORIMS-NES. |
| 1995.6 |
USSR Inst.Tech. Phys. (ITP),
Snezhinsk (Direc.Acad, E. Avrorin ) proposed
coop. devel. of miniFUJI to KF |
| 1997.4 |
"Intl Conf.MSR Develop." at RAND,
SantaMonica,USA with 24 MSR specialists from
Japan(5), USA(5), Russia(4), Belarus(2), India,
France, Turkey, Czech & IAEA, and supported
the miniFUJI & FUJI Devel. Program. |
| 1997.7 |
Japan / USA / Russia
Trilat.Coop.MSR-Dev Meet. at ITP, a tentative
miniFUJI-site inside of ITP, Snezhinsk Russia. |
| 1997.8 |
US Presi.Clinton Advisor Sci.
&Tech. (Dr. J.Gibbons) promised Trilat.Coop.
MSR-Dev. with ORNL: no problem. |
| 1998.2 |
Academ.Avrorin, ITP visit Japan;
Russian Govern.approved MSR Coop. plan. |
| 2001.8 |
pub. Book:"Revolution in Nuclear
Power-Plants"(Japanese,2001) by KF. Issued
15,000 already till 2010. |
| 2004.9 |
visit Czech & Slovakia: Prague,
Rez NRI; Pilzen SKODA; Brno; Slovakia Nucl.Ene.
Conf.. |
| 2005.9 |
R.Moir & Edward Teller:
Nucl.Tech.151(2005) 334. supporting FUJI concept. |
| 2006.6 |
"Nucl. Non-Prolif."by KF awarded
Prize of Excellence from Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Eisaku SATO Foundation" |
| 2006.9 |
SKODA-JS (Pres. M.Fiala) invited KF
to the 50 years anniversary |
| 2007.1 |
IAEA-TECDOC-1536:"Status on
Small Reactors without On-site Refuelling"
published including "FUJI concept".(p.821-856) |
| 2007.8 |
ICENES, Istanbul Turkey: "
Road Map Realiz. Global-scale Th Breed. Fuel Cycle
by Single Molten-Fluoride Flow", by KF and 17
coauthors(inc. 8 foreigners) [Ene. Conv. &
Manag., 49(2008)p.1832-1845. ] |
| 2008.10 |
Formal NPO: ITHMSF (Int.Thorium
Molten-Salt Forum) established. |
| 2009.6 |
visit Prague and Moscow for
"miniFUJI & FUJI development task" plan |
