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**mp3 free** · 01-03-2010, 05:39 AM

It might be due to its abundance - 4-5 times more thorium than all uranium isotopes combined - and widely spread across the earth with large deposits in Brazil, Turkey and India.

It does have one big downside - its reaction creates U-233 - which can be used as the fission fuel for nuclear weapons according to wikipedia - though the presence of the problematic U-232 as an additional side product in the thorium cycle might diminish that.

01-03-2010, 05:39 AM	#1
mp3 free Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 317 Senior Member	Thorium -- Our Nuclear Messiah? It might be due to its abundance - 4-5 times more thorium than all uranium isotopes combined - and widely spread across the earth with large deposits in Brazil, Turkey and India. It does have one big downside - its reaction creates U-233 - which can be used as the fission fuel for nuclear weapons according to wikipedia - though the presence of the problematic U-232 as an additional side product in the thorium cycle might diminish that.
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