Understanding the Periodic Table

Nuclear Fuel: Thorium, Uranium, and Plutonium (1x22)


Air date: Jun 09, 2021

At the very bottom of the periodic table, you will find some of its most radioactive and unstable elements. Now, turn to the seventh row and spend some time with the most abundant pair of “light” actinoids—uranium and thorium—and learn how instability and radioactive decay have come to define this group of elements.

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