Deep underneath your feet is a hellish stone soup, kept hot by a torrent of radiation from poisonous isotopes of uranium, thorium and potassium in the earth「s superheated mantle.
我们脚下深处是地狱般的巖石汤,在温度非常高的地球地幔中,有毒的铀、钍和钾元素的同位素释放出的辐射流不断地对这些巖石汤进行加热,使其保持高温。
Since the unstable nuclei exist between actinides, including thorium and stable nuclei like lead and bismuth, explosive events such as supernovae are required to produce actinides.
自不稳定核之间存在着锕系元素,包括钍和稳定核像灌了铅,铋,爆炸性事件,如超需出示锕。
So, you」ve got polonium or thorium sitting inside this leaded box with one opening.
把钋或者钍放在,开一个小口的含铅的盒子里面。
That model estimated that uranium and thorium (together) accounted for about 16 terawatts of the approximately 44 terawatts of heat produced by the Earth.
该模型估计,铀和钍(一起)产生占地球产生的约44太瓦热量中的16太瓦。
They had been interested in thorium — a radioactive element that can fuel nuclear reactors but not be processed into weapons.
他们当时对一种放射性元素钍很感兴趣,这种元素能驱动核反应堆,却不能制造生产成武器。
There are a number of different ways to use thorium to produce electricity.
用钍发电有许多不同的方式。
By measuring the decay of radioactive uranium and thorium present in the encrusted speleothems, the geologists dated the layers.
通过对出现在洞穴堆积物外壳上的放射性铀和钍进行衰变测量,地质学家们确定了巖层的形成时期。
In addition, the waste products generated by thorium are virtually impossible to turn into plutonium - and they remain dangerous for hundred of years rather than thousands.
此外,钍所产生的废弃物几乎不可能转变成钚,其放射性危险延续100多年,而不是数千年。
Unlike most supernovae, this one spewed lots of elements far heavier than iron, including radioactive thorium and uranium.
这颗晕星不同于大多数超新星,它吐出的许多元素比铁还重,其中包括放射性钍和铀。
Potassium, phosphorus and thorium are other elements that lunar rocks have to offer a potential mining venture.
钾、磷、钍是月巖可向将来的采矿企业提供的其它元素。
Sorensen estimates that between 5, 000-6, 000 tonnes of thorium could produce as much energy as the world currently consumes each year.
索伦森估计,5000- 6000吨的钍就可以产生相当于目前世界上每年能耗量的能源。
For all of these reasons, a growing number of scientists and energy experts believe that the world should switch from uranium to thorium as its primary nuclear fuel.
出于所有这些理由,越来越多的科学家和能源专家认为,主要核燃料应该从铀转换成钍。
Compared to uranium, thorium is far more abundant as well as much more energy-dense.
与铀相比,钍的储藏量更为丰富,能量密度也更高。
Radium, uranium, and thorium are radioactive metallic elements.
镭、铀和钍都属于放射性金属元素。
Using Pierre’s invention to make the measurements, Marie noted that thorium was radioactive.
他们用皮埃尔所发明的仪器来进行测量。玛丽注意到钍元素也是具有放射性的。
Uranium or thorium ores and concentrates.
铀或钍矿砂及其精矿。