Sentence examples for mixture of thorium from inspiring English sources

His interest in rare-earth elements continued, and he found that a fabric impregnated with a mixture of thorium nitrate and cerium nitrate could be made into a mantle that glowed brightly when heated by a gas flame.

The reactor is fueled by a mixture of thorium and transuranics (TRUs) from high-level nuclear waste, dissolved in a sodium fluoride-based carrier salt.

A mixture of thorium and uranium (232Th + 233U) is used as fuel and light water reactor used fuel is utilized as blanket, for the breeding of 239Pu.

In this paper, we propose using a thorium-retained-actinides fuel cycle in PWRs, where the reactor is fuelled with a mixture of thorium and TRU waste, and after discharge all actinides are reprocessed and returned to the reactor.

Previous work has indicated that TRU waste can be virtually eliminated in a pressurised water reactor (PWR) fuelled with a mixture of thorium and TRU waste, when all actinides are returned to the reactor after reprocessing.

In this work, we focused on the last type of fuel and we propose a mixture of 40% thorium and 60% uranium.

The majority of the fuel pins contain a mixture of uranium and thorium oxides, while a few fuel pins contain a mixture between uranium and gadolinium oxides.

Natural thorium is a mixture of radioactive isotopes, predominantly the very long-lived thorium-232 (1.40 × 1010-year half-life), the parent of the thorium radioactive decay series.

Typically, 3 to 5 percent of the metal content of monazite is thorium (in the form of thorium dioxide, ThO2).

The pro-thorium lobby claim a single tonne of thorium burned in a molten salt reactor (MSR) – typically a liquid fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR) – which has liquid rather than solid fuel, can produce one gigawatt of energy.

China is also developing different types of thorium reactors, and India is expected to start construction in four or five years of one that uses solid thorium fuel.