Assertion: thorium | /r/HasProperty | th-232
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text: Thorium (Th-232) is not itself fissile and so is not directly usable in a thermal neutron reactor.
text: Thorium (Th-232) is not itself fissile and so is not directly usable in a thermal neutron reactor.
text: Thorium (Th-232) cannot split like uranium to generate energy (even if it’s bombarded with neutrons) and needs to pass through a series of nuclear reactions to eventually emerge as an isotope of uranium (U-233).
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: LFTRs are designed to convert Thorium (Th-232), an inexpensive and abundant material, into Uranium-233 which can then undergo nuclear fission.