Not great, not terrible

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• frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Thorium-232 has an extremely long half life (longer than the age of the universe) and it’s reasonably abundant. That’s the isotope useful for the thorium fuel cycle.

  So it’s not quite that bad for threading this needle. The fuel cycle is a little more complicated than uranium–it’s not fertile as it is–and that could slow down R&D of a new nuclear program by getting stuck at some step.

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  • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thorium is the Fusion of Fission.

    Since the 60’s we’ve been told that thorium tech is just around the corner and it will replace uranium.

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    • frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      China has a working prototype today. There weren’t any theoretical issues, someone just needed to put the money down.

      Same thing with fusion, really.

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  • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This doesnt remove a single step from the image

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    • frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It removes the “hope intelligent life evolves fast enough”.

      If it was only Uraniam, then you need U-235. That has a half life of about 700M years. Cut in half 2 more times, and there’s almost none left. So if intelligent life took another 1.5B years to develop on Earth (which it easily could have), then that path is cut off.

      With Thorium, the sun would probably expand to a red giant first.

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• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nah just need some spicy rocks.

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  • Zuriz@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    🤯

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  • troyunrau@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As a geoscience, I like spicy rocks

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• Etterra@discuss.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We’ll be fine as long as this screwdriver says put.

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