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Can we breed protactinium from thorium by hitting it with accelerated He ions?
Accelerate He ions on to Thorium
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If one induces an (alpha, p) reaction, then one could produce Pa. However, it would be much easier to produce Pa with neutron capture in Th-232, which becomes Th-233, which decays to Pa-233, which decays to U-233, which is fissile.edpell said:
See the attached for nuclides of Th, Pa, and U.
