To: SunTzuWu
Isn't Uranium Hexafluoride a gas at STP?
22 posted on
12/21/2006 8:26:07 PM PST by
posterchild
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To: posterchild
Isn't Uranium Hexafluoride a gas at STP?
nope-- it sublimes at around 130° F
30 posted on
12/21/2006 8:37:50 PM PST by
verum ago
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To: posterchild
Uranium Hexafluoride is a gas (when pure), but it's not transported that way.
Transporting "tons of uranium" is like moving any low-grade radioactive substance or low level waste: at this stage it's a metallic mix or alloy, very low enrichment, with only a few tenths of a percent U235. a few percent U238 (inert), and the rest the alloying agent (like any ore, the "pure" stuff is mixed in with the 90%+ non-Uranium elements.
the mix is in the multiple-staged containers (against spills or truck accidents like this), and those are tested against simple flip-over accidents like this.
the High-radiation spent fuel containers are much, much more robust, and are actually tested by driving a train at full speed through the trailer, then keeping the resulting (dented) container in a fire for several hours, then checking for leaks. (None have.)
68 posted on
12/22/2006 6:37:20 AM PST by
Robert A Cook PE
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To: posterchild
"Isn't Uranium Hexafluoride a gas at STP?" - Low boiling liquid. And they were transporting a powder - oxide, probably.
92 posted on
12/22/2006 11:21:06 AM PST by
GSlob
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