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It was well known to physicists of the time that another uranium isotope, U-233, is also fissionable.
Victor Stenger: LFTR: A Long-Term Energy Solution? Victor Stenger 2012
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This makes U-233 fusion unusable as a weapon, since these gamma rays are very destructive to a bomb's instrumentation and dangerous to the personnel handling it.
Victor Stenger: LFTR: A Long-Term Energy Solution? Victor Stenger 2012
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It was well known to physicists of the time that another uranium isotope, U-233, is also fissionable.
Victor Stenger: LFTR: A Long-Term Energy Solution? Victor Stenger 2012
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Furthermore, U-233 is not an efficient breeder of plutonium, since it contains two fewer neutrons than U-235.
Victor Stenger: LFTR: A Long-Term Energy Solution? Victor Stenger 2012
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However, a reactor breeding U-233 also produces U-232, which has a decay chain that generates high-energy gamma rays.
Victor Stenger: LFTR: A Long-Term Energy Solution? Victor Stenger 2012
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Although far less of a problem than U-235 and Pu-239, waste from U-233 still has to be stored someplace.
Victor Stenger: LFTR: A Long-Term Energy Solution? Victor Stenger 2012
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However, a reactor breeding U-233 also produces U-232, which has a decay chain that generates high-energy gamma rays.
Victor Stenger: LFTR: A Long-Term Energy Solution? Victor Stenger 2012
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Furthermore, U-233 is not an efficient breeder of plutonium, since it contains two fewer neutrons than U-235.
Victor Stenger: LFTR: A Long-Term Energy Solution? Victor Stenger 2012
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This makes U-233 fusion unusable as a weapon, since these gamma rays are very destructive to a bomb's instrumentation and dangerous to the personnel handling it.
Victor Stenger: LFTR: A Long-Term Energy Solution? Victor Stenger 2012
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Although far less of a problem than U-235 and Pu-239, waste from U-233 still has to be stored someplace.
Victor Stenger: LFTR: A Long-Term Energy Solution? Victor Stenger 2012
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