Depleted uranium is harmless, I’ve got about a 1 pound slug of it on my collection shelf.
Regarding spent fuel though, recall in the past Q’s there was indication that one of the things the administration/white side had to do was secure allegedly extremely dangerous cabal “fail safes” woven into the nation. I’ve thought after reading something discussing the closed loop nuclear cycle that the author was on to something insinuated in the article, and that was that the current policies on storage/disposal/reprocessing of spent fuel had essentially created a situation where America had a gun tied to its head.
multiple loads of spent fuel are stored at many reactors, and the amount exceeds the design quantity of the pools. Ordinarily the water would keep a cycles worth cool enough through evaporation but with multiple sets it needs to be circulated constantly lest it boil off and things get ugly. The thought there was that one of the fail safes/insurance policies was the threat of something in the pump and/or valve controllers code like stuxnet which would on activation damage or disable the device but return nominal operational data to plant operators until it was too late.
While the idea of of the vulnerability was intriguing what was wilder was the allegation that the previous 30+ years of political and bureaucratic nuclear policy was essentially steered to produce that national booby trap...
I used to work in that field. Process control, valves, sensors all networked, that kind of thing. Keep the system off the ‘net you’re fine. Online you’re stupid. Major players are tight. You would be amazed at how old some of the tech is in the energy grid.
Depleted uranium is harmless, I’ve got about a 1 pound slug of it on my collection shelf.
Regarding spent fuel though, recall in the past Q’s there was indication that one of the things the administration/white side had to do was secure allegedly extremely dangerous cabal “fail safes” woven into the nation. I’ve thought after reading something discussing the closed loop nuclear cycle that the author was on to something insinuated in the article, and that was that the current policies on storage/disposal/reprocessing of spent fuel had essentially created a situation where America had a gun tied to its head.
multiple loads of spent fuel are stored at many reactors, and the amount exceeds the design quantity of the pools. Ordinarily the water would keep a cycles worth cool enough through evaporation but with multiple sets it needs to be circulated constantly lest it boil off and things get ugly. The thought there was that one of the fail safes/insurance policies was the threat of something in the pump and/or valve controllers code like stuxnet which would on activation damage or disable the device but return nominal operational data to plant operators until it was too late.
While the idea of of the vulnerability was intriguing what was wilder was the allegation that the previous 30+ years of political and bureaucratic nuclear policy was essentially steered to produce that national booby trap...
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Thank you for drawing the distinction between depleted uranium and spent fuel, and outlining the possible implications regarding the storage and management policies so as to create a gun to our heads if we choose to use nuclear power.
I had not thought about it, but it makes perfect sense that the thugs would indeed mismanage the spent fuel policies in such a way as to place us in terrible danger. So many things have been done so stupidly and maliciously, that it is not difficult to realize that this is just another area of their disregard and disdain for human life and the expansion of their own greed to massive levels.... and another serious mess we are faced with cleaning up.
But with Hillary not the Prez, we at least have a shot at it.