To: all the best
Until you bombard it with neutrons and you start creating U232 which is a hard gamma emitter.
With a half life of 68 years, you would be dead before the car rusted out.
This is the chief problem with Thorium energy.
7 posted on
05/02/2015 10:59:42 AM PDT by
Zathras
To: Zathras
U-233. How much shielding (say 6 cm of Lead/Alunimum composite to reduce emission to 5/1000ths) do you really need for 8 grams of fuel?
20 posted on
05/02/2015 12:17:08 PM PDT by
frithguild
(The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
To: Zathras
Sounds like a natural for heavy trucks ,,, plenty of room to make an early version fit.
41 posted on
05/02/2015 1:39:00 PM PDT by
Neidermeyer
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