Thorium Can Serve As A Nuclear Fuel For Commercial Electricity Generation
Saturday, April 18, 2015 - 10:00
in Physics & Chemistry
The two heaviest naturally occurring radioactive elements on the earth are Uranium and Thorium. Uranium is used as a fuel in modern commercial nuclear power reactors for electricity generation. A lesser known fact is that thorium could also be used as a nuclear fuel . Naturally occurring thorium is not fissile and so not able to undergo nuclear fission (separation) and as such it takes an initial nuclear reaction to e read more