Assertion: thorium | /r/HasProperty | fertile material
Facets:
value: compared to uranium
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Thorium is a fertile material that is relatively common and cheap to prepare as a reactor fuel, and is safe and simple to use.
text: (Thorium 232 cannot sustain a chain reaction, but it is fertile, meaning that it can be converted to fissile U-233 through neutron capture, also known as “breeding.”)
text: Almost all thorium is fertile Th-232, compared to uranium that is composed of 99.3% fertile U-238 and 0.7% more valuable fissile U-235.
text: Thorium is therefore called fertile, whereas U-233 is called fissile.
text: Thorium is a fertile nucleus which can be transformed into uranium via a reactor.
text: Thus, they are both fertile elements that can be used to fuel nuclear reactors.
text: Thorium is the fertile element of the fuel; it still needs a fissile element to get it started.
text: Thorium is an fertile material only.
text: Thorium is fertile material, and essentially all thorium can be used in a nuclear reactor.
text: On the other hand, thorium is “only” a fertile material and the main problem can be directly in the breeding of fissile uranium 233.
text: One of the most important factor of Thorium is that, it is fertile rather than fissile, and can only be used as a fuel in conjunction with a fissile material such as recycled plutonium.
text: Thorium (Th-232) is ‘fertile’ and upon absorbing a neutron will transmute to uranium-233 which is an excellent fissile fuel material similar to uranium-238 which transmutes to plutonium-239.
text: Almost all thorium is fertile Th-232, compared to uranium that is composed of 99.3% fertile U-238 and 0.7% more valuable fissile U-235.
text: Thorium is called this way fertile, while the emerging isotope of uranium (U-233) is called fissile because it can be used as nuclear fuel in the nuclear fission reaction to generate low-carbon energy.
text: So thorium is not usable as a fuel directly, but is instead a fertile nucleus that can be converted to uranium in a reactor.