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231 Th has 141 neutrons. It is the decay product of uranium-235. It is found in very small amounts on the earth and has a half-life of 25.5 hours. [53] When it decays, it emits a beta ray and forms protactinium-231. It has a decay energy of 0.39 MeV. It has a mass of 231.0363043 u.
A sample of thorium. The thorium fuel cycle is a nuclear fuel cycle that uses an isotope of thorium, 232 Th, as the fertile material. In the reactor, 232 Th is transmuted into the fissile artificial uranium isotope 233 U which is the nuclear fuel. Unlike natural uranium, natural thorium contains only trace amounts of fissile material (such as ...
The production of "clean" 233 U, low in 232 U, requires a few factors: 1) obtaining a relatively pure 232 Th source, low in 230 Th (which also transmutes to 232 U), 2) moderating the incident neutrons to have an energy not higher that 6 MeV (too-high energy neutrons cause the 232 Th (n,2n) → 231 Th reaction) and 3) removing the thorium sample ...
Two radiometric dating methods involve thorium isotopes: uranium–thorium dating, based on the decay of 234 U to 230 Th, and ionium–thorium dating, which measures the ratio of 232 Th to 230 Th. [e] These rely on the fact that 232 Th is a primordial radioisotope, but 230 Th only occurs as an intermediate decay product in the decay chain of ...
However, there is no real demand in chemistry, physics, or engineering for isolating 234 U. Very small pure samples of 234 U can be extracted via the chemical ion-exchange process, from samples of plutonium-238 that have aged somewhat to allow some alpha decay to 234 U.
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