1) does this have any relevance to thorium as nuclear fuel? Looks like no.
2) is there any significance to the units of the wave length? Like they’ve narrowed it down to a number. Does that granularity map to anything? Some sort of discrete scale? Or is there going to be a range of values that work +/- a super tiny value.
This has indeed no relationship with nuclear energy, except that thorium 229 is produced in nuclear reactors.
This achievement is a step (the most important one) towards the goal of making an atomic clock that uses thorium 229 (which has important advantages mentioned in another posting).
Not yet. But if someone could condition nuclear fuel atoms so that when they do fission, they consistently break into one delayed neutron precursor and one stable or near stable atom with no long-term afterglow heat, that could revolutionize nuclear power. I've been told that this dream is impossible but it's still my 1 genie wish. Right now they break into 50% of the periodic table and cause all sorts of grief.
2) is there any significance to the units of the wave length? Like they’ve narrowed it down to a number. Does that granularity map to anything? Some sort of discrete scale? Or is there going to be a range of values that work +/- a super tiny value.