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U usually ssions on neutron absorption but sometimes retains the neutron, becoming uranium-234. The
capture-to-ssion ratio is smaller than the other two major ssile fuels uranium-235 and plutonium-239; it is also
lower than that of short-lived plutonium-241, but bested
by very dicult-to-produce neptunium-236.
Fissile material
German THTR-300
Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment
T. Seaborg.[2][3]
3 WEAPON MATERIAL
Nuclear fuel
2.1
Energy released
Weapon material
232
Th (n,) 233 Th () 233 Pa () 233 U (n,2n)
The United States detonated an experimental device
232
U
in the 1955 Operation Teapot MET test which
232
used a plutonium/U-233 composite pit; its design
Th (n,) 233 Th () 233 Pa (n,2n) 232 Pa ()
232
was based on the plutonium/U-235 pit from the
U
TX-7E, a prototype Mark 7 nuclear bomb design
used in the 1951 Operation Buster-Jangle Easy The decay chain of 232 U quickly yields strong gamma ratest. Although not an outright zzle, METs actual diation emitters:
yield of 22 kilotons was suciently below the predicted 33 that the information gathered was of lim232
U (, 68.9 years)
ited value.[8][9]
228
Th (, 1.9 year)
224
3
220
Rn (, 55 s, 0.54 MeV)
216
Po (, 0.15 s)
212
Pb (, 10.64 h)
212
Bi (, 61 m, 0.78 MeV)
208
Tl (, 3 m, 2.6 MeV)
208
Pb (stable)
Further information
Uses for uranium-233 include the production of med- [9] Operation Buster-Jangle. Nuclear Weapon Archive. 15
October 1997. Retrieved 2012-03-18.
ical isotopes actinium-225 and bismuth-213, low-mass
nuclear reactors for space travel applications, use as an [10] Stephen F. Ashley. Thorium and its role in the nuclear
isotopic tracer, nuclear weapons research, and reactor
fuel cycle. Retrieved 16 April 2014. PDF page 8, citfuel research including the thorium fuel cycle.[1]
ing: D. Holloway, Soviet Thermonuclear Development,
International Security 4:3 (197980) 192197.
See also
Breeder reactor
Liquid uoride thorium reactor
Notes
6 NOTES
WebEle-
[20] Its Elemental The Periodic Table of Elements. Jefferson Lab. Archived from the original on 29 April 2007.
Retrieved 2007-04-14.
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