'Active Voice with Llewellyn King,' Episode 11, 'Birth of a New Reactor' Part 1
In 1940, when the nuclear era was embryonic, Nobel laureate Glenn Seaborg discovered that if bombarded with neutrons, thorium, a plentiful element in nature, could sustain a nuclear reaction. ...
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