Example collocations logo

Thorium in sentence

12 examples of Thorium in a sentence

And inside this reactor is a molten salt, so anybody who's a fan of thorium, they're going to be really excited about this, because these reactors happen to be really good at breeding and burning the thorium fuel cycle, uranium-233.
So we use a laser to analyze uranium and one of its daughter products, thorium, in these corals, and that tells us exactly how old the fossils are.
Curie soon found that the element thorium emitted similar radiation.
In particular, the thorium reactor shows a lot of promise.
The time came for the thorium reactor, and a bunch of us were excited.
They went through the whole presentation, they got to the timeline, and they said, "We're going to have a thorium molten salt reactor ready for sale to the world by 2040."
And they responded back, they were like, "I'm not sure what you've heard about our thorium program, but we don't have a third of our budget, and your department of energy hasn't been particularly forthcoming with all that data you guys have on testing reactors."
And we know very well that geothermal energy is mostly produced by decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium.
If there is too much uranium or potassium or thorium, probably, again, there would be no life.
Now, we have been measuring abundance of thorium in one of the stars with extrasolar planets.
We are actually trying to measure this profile and to detect thorium.
The uranium and thorium fuel that we find on Earth today was energized when it was created in a gravitational collapse event before the planet was formed.