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To: cpdiii

"Nuclear power is the way to go. We need nuclear not because of the Global Warming Hoax but because it is cheaper and renewable."

I am all for nuclear, but I don't think uranium "renews" itself, the amount is finite.


32 posted on 06/29/2006 2:22:08 PM PDT by Kenny500c
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To: Kenny500c
I am all for nuclear, but I don't think uranium "renews" itself, the amount is finite.

That is true but in a breeder reactor using a mixture of the fissionable U235 the majority of the Uranium in the fuel rods is U238. A percentage of it will be converted into fissionable plutonium which can also be used as a reactor fuel. The plutonium is extracted from the rods and reprocessed for fuel for reactors. Yes the total supply if finite but by using this process we will have literal hundreds of years of fuel. This is also the process we use to obtain the plutonium for our nuclear weapons.

33 posted on 06/29/2006 3:26:33 PM PDT by cpdiii (Socialism is popular with the ruling class. It gives legitimacy to tyranny and despotism.)
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