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While plutonium is not created in a thorium fuel cycle, the uranium-233 that is created also can be incorporated into nuclear weapons. Moreover, even though plutonium is not created, ...

There is an paper by Kazuo Furukawa et al, “A Road Map for the Realization of Global-scale Thorium Breeding Fuel Cycle by Single Molten-Fluoride Flow” Hat tip to energy from thorium discussion board ...

However, there are ways to use thorium to create fissile materials suitable for fuel. Thorium-232 is the only naturally ...

Thorium Fuel Cycle Market 2020: Emerging Opportunities. The thorium fuel cycle has several potential advantages over a uranium fuel cycle, including thorium’s greater abundance, superior physical and ...

Known as the thorium fuel cycle, this process was once earmarked for far more intensive studies than what eventually transpired. The world's first practical thorium-derived fission reactor was ...

Thorium is quite plentiful in practice since it is a byproduct of refining rare-earth metals. The accumulated waste from that alone would produce centuries of fuel for hundreds of reactors.

By 1977, however, the government abandoned pursuit of the thorium fuel cycle in favor of plutonium-fueled breeders, leading to dissent in the ranks of the AEC. Alvin Weinberg, the long-time director ...