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ams6110 on Nov 24, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Your Smartphone's Dirty, Radioactive Secret

Both thorium and uranium have commercial uses. Why is it not recovered and sold?

ramchip on Nov 24, 2012 [–]

Perhaps it doesn't make economic sense. I wouldn't be surprised if demand for rare earth had risen much more quickly than demand for thorium and uranium in the last decade or so.

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