As early as 1942, Glenn Seaborg had established that thorium, the ninetieth element, could decay under nuclear bombardment to the fissionable uranium-233.

Research on thorium as an energy source began in 1940 under the direction of Glenn Seaborg at the University of California, Berkeley.

By the end of the Manhattan Project, uranium-233 derived from thorium had been produced, evaluated, and rejected as a nuclear weapons material. Plutonium ...

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2 мая 2024 г. · The vision was to design fuel strategies that used materials effectively – recycling of plutonium and U-233 was seen to be logical. The study ... Thorium as a nuclear fuel · Thorium energy R&D – past...

In the early days of nuclear energy, especially in the USA as a follow-up of the Manhattan Project (1945–60), the leading US laboratories singled out thorium ...

In this chapter the general chemistry of thorium is briefly discussed with the greatest emphasis on analytical chemistry.

26 мар. 2023 г. · At Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Manhattan Project administrators developed three facilities to separate and enrich uranium as fuel for an atomic bomb.

Thorium-based nuclear power generation is fueled primarily by the nuclear fission of the isotope uranium-233 produced from the fertile element thorium. List of countries by thorium... · Liquid fluoride thorium reactor · Kamini · TMSR-LF1

Development of a method to purify uranium as an integral part of the Manhattan Project led to the establishment of Ames Laboratory.