<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><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">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></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" style="">U</span>ranium 233<span class="gmail_default" style="">.</span> <span class="gmail_default" style="">T</span>horium isn't fissionable but it is fertile because<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>like U-235, U-233 is fissionable.  That's the fundamental process behind the Liquid <span class="gmail_default" style="">F</span>luoride <span class="gmail_default" style="">T</span>horium <span class="gmail_default" style="">R</span>eactor<span class="gmail_default" style="">.</span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style="">John K Clark</b></font></span></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br><br>
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