Electronuclear breeding of fuel in thorium and uranium targets differs mainly in that in the case of thorium the neutron flux and the production of the easily fissioning isotope decrease by approximately one third, the total heat release decreases by more than a factor of 2, and at the same time the temperature gradients at the center of the target increase. As we have already mentioned above, if distance within the target is expressed in the units of g/cm2, then the spatial distribution of different quantities is found to be close in the uranium and thorium targets. © 1994 Plenum Publishing Corporation.
