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To: zeestephen
The article starts well, but then:

"When Th232 absorbs a neutron it becomes Th233, which is unstable and decays into protactinium-233 and then into U233. That’s the same uranium isotope we use in reactors now as a nuclear fuel, the one that is fissile all on its own."

Which is totally wrong. The fissile material in uranium reactors is U-235, not U-233.

11 posted on 01/31/2015 4:22:06 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (Newly fledged NRA Life Member (after many years as an "annual renewal" sort))
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To: Wonder Warthog

233 235’ whatever it takes


12 posted on 01/31/2015 4:57:52 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: Wonder Warthog

“what difference does it make” 233 or 235 it is only nuclear.


14 posted on 01/31/2015 5:16:55 AM PST by freeonefrom (God bless America and our troops.)
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To: Wonder Warthog

U-233 is fissile and has been used for a bomb.


16 posted on 01/31/2015 5:23:55 AM PST by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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