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Gold/Mining/Energy : What is Thorium -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Yorikke who wrote (339)	2/27/2007 8:46:00 AM
From: Webster Groves	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 912

I trust by hot enough you are not talking about a physical temperature. That temperature must always be controlled by cooling to keep the rods from melting. Yes plutonium can be "spent" through nuclear reactions in a thorium reactor mix, but the deal works to destroy plutonium only if you want it too. If you don't, you take the mixed fuel rods given to you and you chemically strip the Pu without ever uses the rods in a reactor. So not good to send such rods abroad. Furthermore the US is interested not in destroying all stocks of Pu, only those the Russians have (aside from token gestures). wg