It these bed wetters were around when mankind discovered fire we’d all still be naked and freezing in the dark.
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How does one make a bomb from uranium 233? Has it ever been done?
Yeah. Except the operators of such a clandestine plant would be dead 1000 times over from gamma ray exposure. That’s the rub with Thorium, which in all other respects looks excellent as a power source. There is much less waste, but what there is, is powerful and much more radioactive by gamma radiation than U-process waste. That type of radiation is far more damaging to tissue than alpha radiation or neutron radiation.
Read the comments after the article for the rebuttals.
The fact is that any nation-state that wants to can produce nuclear weapons. If North Korea can do it, anyone can. Thorium reactors aren’t a realistic risk in this regard. As someone pointed out in the comments, anyone with a neutron source can pursue the same process without a reactor.
The world needs clean, safe energy in abundance, and thorium reactors are the most promising high density source. What we need to do is avoid the insanity of dotting the landscape with wind turbines. That is very likely to be a fad leaving thousands of rusting, expensive eyesores for all of us to “enjoy”.