DBI/Century Fuels offers a clean, green, safe and cost effective nuclear solution to the energy crisis and global climate change.
Since the late 1960’s, Hector A. D’Auvergne, DBI’s founder, has been conducting research on the use of the element thorium as a primary nuclear fuel that has the potential to reduce and ultimately eliminate the need for uranium as a nuclear fuel. With the elimination of uranium from the nuclear fuel cycle, the potential for producing weapons-grade plutonium is also eliminated, thereby resulting in safe, single-use nuclear reactors that supply power at 4 to 7 cents per kilowatt-hour.
The company’s thorium reactor designs provide the world with a nuclear alternative to fossil fuel consumption enabling countries to take advantage of the abundant and widely available thorium deposits to achieve energy independence.
DBI’s goal on the nuclear front is and has been to create a means, within existing national and international laws, by which sovereign nations can obtain synthetic fuel by switching from 238U (Pu) to 232Th (233U), and by so doing create a truly clean, sustainable nuclear industry based upon modular reactors, and to eventually use existing nuclear waste stockpiles as start-up fuel to convert thorium into 233U, using DBI’s reactor process in larger installations.
