[ExI] cost of SBSP and thorium

Brent Neal brentn at brentneal.me
Sun Aug 19 19:52:46 UTC 2012


On 19 Aug, 2012, at 14:36, Eugen Leitl wrote:

> Complete bullshit. Thorium fuelcycle systems have been investigated in many
> countries and all of the pilots have been shut down (the latest in late 1980s).
> 
> The dolchstosslegende of thorium fuel cycle being unsuitable for
> nuclear weapons is also bullshit, both because the projects were
> civilian, and because U-233 happens to be as suitable for making
> weapons like U-239. So you're doubly wrong here.

I think that your knowledge of the nuclear physics here is faulty. Please go and look up the half-life of U-233.

B


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