Reply #12: Well Thorium nuclear products can be used to make nuclear weapons. [View All]

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It is difficult but not impossible.

Thorium reactor spent fuel will contain considerable U233 & U232.

U233 is useful in nuclear weapons production. However U232 is a hard gamma emitter making working around it very dangerous. Also there is no cheap or effective method of separating U232 from U233. All this complicates the making of weapons from U232/U233 isotope mix.

So you can build weapons from Thorium fission chain it just is much harder and more expensive.