SINCE March 1938, we have been engaged in the study of artificial radioactivity induced in thorium by fast neutrons. We have already reported 1 the production of uranium Y, which was obtained in ...

Spread the loveIn 1939, groundbreaking research in nuclear physics unveiled the potential for transmuting elements via ...

Thorium-232, the only naturally occurring isotope of thorium, is considered ‘fertile’ for fission. This means that it needs a driver, such as uranium or plutonium, to trigger and maintain a chain ...

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There are no fast neutrons being used to breed fuel from fertile fission products or thorium salts – with the graphite moderator moderating all fast neutrons to thermal neutrons – making it ...

Each fission reaction releases a huge amount of ... core surrounded by a blanket of fissile material such as uranium or thorium. An often cited but not technically significant advantage of a ...

The technology, enabled by thorium atoms, could keep time more accurately than atomic clocks and enable new discoveries about gravity, gravitational waves and dark matter Shi En Kim Reporter ...

Thorium may sound like something out of a Marvel ... There are around 440 reactors in more than 30 countries. These fission ...

Fission Uranium Corp. is an award-winning Canadian uranium project developer and 100% owner of the Patterson Lake South uranium property – a proposed high-grade uranium mine and mill in ...

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