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Second, it cannot be easily used for nuclear weapons because uranium-232 is also generated by thorium breeding, which is a gamma ray emitter that damages bomb electronics and would have to be extracted by centrifuge isotope separation meaning that you are no further along than just starting with raw uranium ore.
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Kirk Sorensen: Uranium-233, which is what thorium turns into, is inevitably contaminated with another uranium isotope called uranium-232, and it throws off a hard gamma emission that makes it very easy to detect and very difficult to fabricate any sort of practical weapon from it.
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