To: Jeff Winston
If Plutonium ends up being released in large quantities, look out...
Reactor #3 has Plutonium for fuel. That’s the scary one.
18 posted on
03/14/2011 7:28:32 PM PDT by
DB
To: DB
Thats the scary one
All light-water-reactor fuel forms Pu it is an expected product of irradiating the non-fissile Uranium. Typical fuel creates Pu. MOX (a mix of uranium-dioxide and Pu-oxide) starts off with a non-zero amount of Pu. It is normal to burn Pu in a light-water-reactor.
31 posted on
03/14/2011 7:44:55 PM PDT by
sefarkas
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