
Can molton salt reactors produce electricity safely?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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Is Authorium a Good Fuel for Fision?
The cool thing of au thorium is that it can't actually do fision on its own, but when you hit it with a neutron, it turns into uranium two 33. So now another version of uranium. See, it is kind of like the hulkin. It turns green and more volatile. Sounds like the hulk, yes. And uranium two 33 is not something that exists in the earth crust in anything but trace amounts. Is very ficile. And it can operate with slow neutrons. If you just hit thorium with a neutron,. it turn into uranium, which is then fuel. The reactor can turn thorium into fuel for itself with what lik i wait
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