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To: airborne
What about thorium bombs?

This will be a stranium on my cranium, but what the hey!

IIRC, thorium is not fissile - it can't be used for a bomb. As per the article, the thorium, in a reactor, will absorb neutrons to become U-233 but I don't believe U-233 is bomb material either. The U-233 would have to be somehow converted to U-238(?) to be suitable bomb material.

If I've botched that much then maybe someone will correct me.

5 posted on 08/23/2008 4:56:49 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon
The U-233 would have to be somehow converted to U-238(?) to be suitable bomb material.

That would be U-235 that is useful for bombs and it can not be done. U-233 will fission upon absorbing another neutron.

10 posted on 08/23/2008 5:16:51 PM PDT by Pontiac (Your message here.)
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