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Originally Posted by Shawnski
What the heck are you talking about? The fuel is essentially your every day Thorium. It is WASTE product from rare earth mining.
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The raw product is your every day Thorium. It is not fuel ready.
I'm guessing he is talking about the initial cost of setting up a supply chain of
prepared Thorium for use as a fuel.
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However, unlike uranium-based breeder reactors, thorium requires irradiation and reprocessing before the above-noted advantages of thorium-232 can be realized, which makes thorium fuels initially more expensive than uranium fuels.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium...FWickleder2006