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2006-12-24 India-Pakistan

India's BARC to build thorium based reactor without exclusion zone

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Posted by john 2006-12-24 07:52|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I'm all for nuclear power.. but fellas ... keep the 1.6-km no-mans land.

Besides radiation safety, it provides a free fire zone to target jihadis who will come a calling

Posted by john 2006-12-24 08:14|| 2006-12-24 08:14|| Front Page Top

#2 FINALLY!

Thorium's fantastic stuff: You seed a reactor with some U-233 to start the reaction. fissioning U-233 has the highest ratio of neutrons per fission than plutonium or U-235, but the fissions take place in an energy band that renders it useless as bomb-grade material. The extra neutrons are absorbed by the thorium, which decays into MORE U-233. The whole amount of thorium is potentially fissionable. In contrast, U-238 decays to plutonium, only part of which is burned in a uranium fueled reactor.

There's more minable thorium than uranium: some asshole boosted Uranium's fraction by including the uranium suspended in sea-water to make it look more attractive.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2006-12-24 22:24|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2006-12-24 22:24|| Front Page Top

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