<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 1, 2025, 7:27 AM John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>If we're going that route, doesn't bombarding thorium with neutrons make uranium? </i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Yes, you get <span class="gmail_default">U</span>ranium 233<span class="gmail_default">.</span> <span class="gmail_default">T</span>horium isn't fissionable but it is fertile because<span class="gmail_default"> </span>like U-235, U-233 is fissionable.  That's the fundamental process behind the Liquid <span class="gmail_default">F</span>luoride <span class="gmail_default">T</span>horium <span class="gmail_default">R</span>eactor<span class="gmail_default">.</span></b></font></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So long as we're talking theoretically possible, whether or not plausible: add two neutrons for U-235.</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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