Recent improvements in mathematical and experimental methods made possible a detailed study of fission cross sections ~f of the heavy elements which are needed for various precise calculations. One of the immediate results was the discovery of a ,fine structuren in the fission cross section of, consisting of a group of resonances with fission halfwidths Ff much above average I1, 2]. Contemporary theory explains these structures by assuming that the fissionable nucleus has compound states in the intermediate minimum of the double-humped fission barrier, which drastically increases the penetration of this barrier [3]. A comparison of the average ~f structure period and the density of states calculated in the Fermi gas model makes it possible, in particular, to determine the depth of this intermediate minimum. In studied nuclei its bottom has been found to lie 2-2.5 MeV above the ground state of the fissionable nucleus.The absence of similar phenomena in other decay channels, e.g., in neutron decay, is usually considered as a proof that the ~f structure is of this nature. In fact, since the difference between the nucleus excitation energy E* and the ground state energy in the second minimum EII is less than the neutron binding energy B n 9" 5 MeV, a nucleus in such a minimum cannot emit neutrons so that such states cannot occur in the neutron channel. However, one usually considers only s resonances whose relatively small statistics in the End< 1 keV region, where they are easily distinguished from p resonances [4], makes it possible to observe this effect. A study of p resonances clearly demonstrates level groups whose reduced neutron widths gri n exceed by 1.5-2 orders of magnitude the average widths of levels located between these groups. shows that relatively narrow groups of ,strong, levels are locatedatE n ~ 150, 500, 850, 1100 eV, etc.The distribution of grin magnitudes (Fig. 2) is apparently divided into two parts, but the ratios of the number of "weak w levels to the number of ,strong, levels, as for fission levels of other heavy nuclei, does not obey the 2I + 1 rule. The ratio is equal approximately to 6 and not 2, as should be the case forp resonances. From Fig. 3 follows that the distances D between ,strong W levels do not follow the simple Wigner distribution. Apart from small D, corresponding to resonances belonging to a single group, one observes very large D associated with spaces between groups. This, as well as the magnitude of grn i, namplifieation, and the average distance between groups which, if one uses the Fermi-gas dependence D(E *), requires Reduced neutron widths of 232Th p resonances.that the reference point of E* be shifted by approximately 2 MeV, is exactly the same as observed in fission channels of other nuclei.The most simple and natural explanation of such structures is that they are due to excitations more simple than compound states. Such excitations manifest themselves in other nuclear reactions as input, analog, cluster, and similar states and cause a great local increase of par...