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[Tasmodevil44]

has a whopping 90 positive charges to overcome, boron has only 5.

And also:

No energetic device like the DPF is needed for that.

That’s all the more reason why I thought that an energetic device like the DPF might make thorium undergo transmutation into something else that would fission instead of having to use neutrons. I also mentioned that other things like deutrium or an alpha particle of helium absorbed might also work. I’m very open-minded about possibilities most people would not be open-minded enough to consider. However, you’re definitely correct about one thing for sure……and that is this:

the high radioactivity of some byproducts such as U-232

You’re most definitely correct on this one. U-232 is a particularly nasty isotope to deal with. So that while I’m still open-minded enough to think that it might work…… even if it did, you would still have to manage the nasty consequences.