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Mining. Despite predictions that thorium will displace uranium as the primary fuel for nuclear power plants, the committee said that both will be needed. But the committee raised a warning flag against overexpansion in uranium mining and milling. "If military requirements fall off during the early part of the forecast growth of atomic power, a surplus over civilian needs may exist." The committee recommended that AEC ease off on uranium ore-buying, let uranium find its natural price in a free market...
from which the light metal titanium is derived. Its monazite sands offer the promise of thorium, a source of fissionable material. Underlying more than...
URANIUM will continue indefinitely as the primary fuel for peaceful uses of atomic energy, predicts Atlas Corp. President Floyd Odium, and widespread use of thorium is years away. By 1965, he estimated, the U.S. will need 4,000,000 tons of uranium ore yearly, far more than is being mined today...
...REACTORS. British, Dutch and U.S. scientists spelled out almost to "do-it-yourself" simplicity the operations of their most advanced reactor designs. Chief among them: AEC's Brookhaven liquid-metal fuel reactor, powered by circulating molten solution of uranium in bismuth, in a "blanket" of thorium-bismuth compound (Th 3 Bi 5 ). The thorium breeds U-233, which is recycled as fuel, making fuel costs "negligible...
EXTRACTING FUEL. New techniques, for extracting thorium and uranium from ordinary granite were revealed by U.S. scientists. One ton of granite would yield uranium and thorium with the energy equivalent of ten to 15 tons of coal...