To: From One - Many; xzins
12 posted on
10/30/2007 5:55:14 AM PDT by
Red Badger
( We don't have science, but we have consensus.......)
To: Red Badger
It is not impossible to get weapons grade nuclear material from pebble bed reactors. It might not be easy, but it is not impossible. Additionally, there are dirty bombs.
13 posted on
10/30/2007 6:05:06 AM PDT by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain. True support of the troops means praying for US to WIN the war!)
To: Red Badger
From the article:
Since the fuel is contained in graphite pebbles, the volume of radioactive waste is much greater, but contains about the same radioactivity when measured in becquerels per kilowatt-hour. The waste tends to be less hazardous and simpler to handle. Thus safe and less hazardous but still able to be manufactured into A-bombs.
15 posted on
10/30/2007 6:09:17 AM PDT by
From One - Many
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To: Red Badger
Also from the article:
Proponents point out that this is a plus, as it is difficult to re-use pebble bed reactor waste for nuclear weapons. Thus difficult but not impossible.
17 posted on
10/30/2007 6:16:31 AM PDT by
From One - Many
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