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To: rednesss

redness, I have no idea what you just said, but it sounds great!


9 posted on 02/23/2007 9:47:57 AM PST by passionfruit
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To: passionfruit
What it means, is that without mining another ton of uranium ore, that there is enough U-238 already above ground and refined to provide 100% of the U.S. power needs taking into account a 5% increase every year for the next 500 years. The only stumbling block is the word Plutonium.

As a side note, if we would just reprocess out the uranium and plutonium from the spent fuel rods that are destined to be buried at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, then that could be used to provide power and not need to be sealed away for 3+ million years. It would really change the engineering requirements for Yucca Mountain.

15 posted on 02/23/2007 10:16:08 AM PST by rednesss
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