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Devac · 2435 days ago · link · · parent · post: Thorium could power the next generation of nuclear reactors
U-232 has a half-life of 68.9 years, quote uses one for U-233. Likely some sort of a typo/misreference, but that's pretty important.because it produces U-232 as a side effect (half life: 160,000 years)
Dude you are awesome when I'm drunk. Don't ever change. I've had the Thorium conversation like three times now. It usually goes something like "I mean, yeah, you could use Thorium, but it's like? a lot of work? and you don't get a lot of benefit out of it and besides nobody's going to build new fission reactors ever again so like I get that the Internet thinks this shit is cool and all but like, no." Obviously that's me paraphrasing. It'd be super-awesome if nuclear physicists talk like that. They don't.