To: Redcloak
Centrifuges are never used to refine uranium from uranium ore, are they? The only reason to go the centrifuge route is to separate U238 (used in A-bombs) from the U235 after the uranium's been refined from the ore, isn't it?
5 posted on
10/06/2004 1:39:58 AM PDT by
jennyp
(...it's just a third-rate forgery.)
To: jennyp
Uh, nevermind.
This scientist implies that it would be necessary for the normal enrichment that you'd do to make it suitable for a reactor.
6 posted on
10/06/2004 1:44:04 AM PDT by
jennyp
(...it's just a third-rate forgery.)
To: jennyp
As far as I know (And I'll leave more definitive responses to our resident Glow-boys), a nuclear reactor can run on mixed fuel; i.e. rods that contain both isotopes. I don't think that you need to pull out the U235 to make the reactor work. The only real reason would be to obtain the isotope for weapons.
7 posted on
10/06/2004 1:48:35 AM PDT by
Redcloak
(Vikings plundered my last tag line.)
To: jennyp
It is U235 that is used in the bomb and slightly enriched for most Pressurized Water Reactors.
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