Word: thorium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Designer Felix Trombe has a long list of experiments that he intends to perform with his pure heat. Most urgent: making hard-to-melt ceramics out of zirconium, thorium and aluminum oxides...
...power only" reactors of the future can burn all of their uranium, not merely the .7% that is naturally fissionable. There will be no need for the Government to buy their plutonium; it will be burned too. If uranium gets scarce, the "fertile blanket" can be made of thorium, which neutrons turn into fissionable U-233-Dr. Zinn did not give the cost of natural uranium, but he estimated that if it cost $35 a Ib. (probably a generous figure), the fuel cost of the power produced from it would be only .0013? a kilowatt-hour. The fuel cost...
...million on easy terms to buy the necessary 2,000,000 long tons of grain. The terms would be left up to ECA (probably 35 years to pay at 2½% interest), and India could repay the loan in strategic materials such as monazite (a source of fissionable thorium), jute and manganese...