Michele Kearney's Nuclear Wire: Thorium power has a protactinium problem

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Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Thorium power has a protactinium problem - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Protactinium’s distinctive chemistry could make thorium reactors less resistant to nuclear weapons proliferation than their proponents believe.