2014-05-20 18:44 GMT+02:00 meekerdb <[email protected]>: > On 5/19/2014 11:48 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > These are valid criticisms that are very much not administrative nature > but cut right to the core [pun intended] of a world in which a multitude of > thorium U233 breeder reactors proliferate widely. There is a risk that this > unintentionally leads to a proliferation of U233 (which can be relatively > easily be chemically separated out from the thorium fluoride salt mix and > purified into U233 metal) > > > U233 isn't likely to proliferate because it is always mixed with U232 > (which it can produce by decay) and U232, through its decay chain, produces > intense gamma radiation. So it can only be handled and processed > remotely. Even suicide bombers wouldn't last long enough to transport it > very far. And the U232 makes it difficult to turn the U233 into a bomb > because it's presence tends to make the bomb low yield. When making a > U233 bomb they try to refine out all the U232. >
Thanks, but it's Chris which has written your quote... but what you say is what I remembered reading about U233 difficult extraction. Quentin > > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. (Roy Batty/Rutger Hauer) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
