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There's more than enough thorium to go around, though, something like 40,000 years worth.
by arcticbull 5y ago
There's more than enough thorium to go around, though, something like 40,000 years worth.
- andi999 5y agoDo you have a good source for that? I only found one slightly confusing blog post.
- andi999 5y agoAlso just reading, it doesn't seem such a device has been build so far. Why not then compare to fusion. Hydrogen seems even more abundant than thorium.
- arcticbull 5y agoCANDU reactors can use thorium fuel. Hydrogen being more abundant doesn't really matter, you have to either electrolyze it from water or extract it from hydrocarbons. [1] There's about 3x as much thorium as uranium. [2] [1] https://inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:29055311 https://inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:29055311 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium