On Friday, July 24, 2020 at 5:46:45 AM UTC-6, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > > Thorium fission is based on a breeder cycle for thorium to protactinium > then to uranium as U232 or U233. The uranium is then fissioned. The > standard products of uranium fission are Radon and Barium. These are gamma > sources. So while I am not an expert on this sort of nuclear physics I am > not sure about the claim that the waste is free of gamma emitters. > > LC > This is my source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_thorium AG
> > > On Friday, July 24, 2020 at 2:00:09 AM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > >> >> >> On Friday, July 24, 2020 at 12:51:23 AM UTC-6, Alan Grayson wrote: >> >>> https://planetofthehumans.com/ >>> >>> Largely correct, but omits the solution; Thorium reactors. Check Wiki >>> for the residuals; no gamma rays. AG >>> >> >> Residuals = waste products; harmless for Thorium reactors, unlike waste >> products from Uranium and Plutonium reactors, and Thorium is fairly >> abundant in the Earth's crust. Andrew Yang mentioned Thorium reactors in >> the second democratic debate. If Biden is elected, he will hopefully become >> science advisor. AG >> > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/db641267-ff2c-43e5-a614-ca07e9658f8bo%40googlegroups.com.
