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Do you have a good source for that? I only found one slightly confusing blog post.
by andi999 5y ago
Do 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