[ExI] too late

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2025, 7:27 AM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> *> If we're going that route, doesn't bombarding thorium with neutrons
>> make uranium? *
>
>
> *Yes, you get Uranium 233. Thorium isn't fissionable but it is fertile
> because like U-235, U-233 is fissionable.  That's the fundamental process
> behind the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor.*
>

So long as we're talking theoretically possible, whether or not plausible:
add two neutrons for U-235.

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