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To: VanShuyten
the depleted uranium from reactor cores can contain much more and , in addition, other, more dangerous elements, such as plutonium.

Depleted Uranium from reactor cores would not be found in a drum at an airport or anywhere else other than a Reactor Fuel reprocessing plant or a nuclear waste facility.

You are correct in stating that the depleted Uranium from spent fuel would be mixed with the fission daughter nuclides of U235 and Pu239. This mixture would be radioactive enough that if in this drum would kill anyone with in that 150 foot radius in a few seconds.

20 posted on 07/26/2013 1:13:02 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Pontiac

A sufficient dose of radiation to kill “in a few seconds” does not exist. It may do its’ damage in a few seconds, but death takes, depending on dose, hours to weeks. . .


26 posted on 07/26/2013 3:54:46 AM PDT by Salgak (http://catalogoftehburningstoopid.blogspot.com 100% all-natural snark !)
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