Hi, I may have previously suggested on this list that in Uranium fission reactor where a U salt is dissolved in heavy water, some additional neutrons might be created by the the fission daughter products spalling a neutron from the D in the heavy water. (Jones previously mentioned that CANDU reactors may produce additional neutrons through a similar process where fast neutrons split D.) If I have calculated correctly, only about the lightest 1/4 of the daughter products are light enough to do this, however, they have enough energy to split multiple D nuclei, one after the other, so this approach may be interesting after all. Besides, after a D is split, the resultant neutron may have enough energy to split another D.
This type of process may therefore produce enough neutrons to speed up the breeding of U233 from Thorium. Cloud storage:- Unsafe, Slow, Expensive ...pick any three.
