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To: GSlob
Uranium and associated decay products thorium-230 and radium-226 will remain hazardous for thousands of years.

U235 enriched to a 20%-50% mix with U238 will render the surface area it settles on inhabitable for centuries
4 posted on 02/15/2006 9:47:03 AM PST by 7thOF7th (Righteousness is our cause and justice will prevail!)
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To: 7thOF7th

All these products would come to equilibrium concentration quite a few years [geological time scale] down the road. Freshly concentrated U-235 does not have them.


6 posted on 02/15/2006 10:10:24 AM PST by GSlob
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