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From the same article, apparently the infeasiblity is that pure uranium-233 could work, but a normal breeder reactor would also produce a small amount of uraniu
by AnthonyMouse 2y ago
From the same article, apparently the infeasiblity is that pure uranium-233 could work, but a normal breeder reactor would also produce a small amount of uranium-232, which is fine for power reactors but not bombs. If you have the resources of the US DoD then you can design a special breeder reactor that uses special thorium, but by that point you could just make one that breeds plutonium out of uranium too.
- credit_guy 2y agoAlthough in theory a U-233 bomb would work just fine, the fact is that very few U-233 bombs were ever made. I don't think that more than 10, by all the nuclear powers combined. One way or another U-233 is not as good a bomb-making material in practice as it is in theory.