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To: KC_Lion

Yep....”weapons grade” for that element is U232. Army fooled around with it for a while in the early 50’s. I think they did a few tests out in Nevada. Just didn’t work out.

U232 is a gamma emitter which required too many modifications and shielding....tended to screw up the bomb’s internal circuits and was too toxic to deal with.

In a LFTR reactor, U232 is screened out in the reactor’s waste separators (along with other waste materials). It’s then stored at a shielded waste center. As a side benefit, many of the waste materials can reprocessed into other items such as medical isotopes.


7 posted on 07/23/2017 8:59:04 PM PDT by ak267
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Could it be re-used as well as the “trigger” fuel for a thorium reactor?


9 posted on 07/23/2017 9:15:59 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: ak267

U233 is the fuel.


14 posted on 07/23/2017 10:36:14 PM PDT by Ozark Tom
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