Posted on 09/11/2002 7:02:18 PM PDT by jriemer
ABC News just finished broadcasting this evening a primer that I would call, "How to Smuggle Uranium-238 into the US". As if the terrorists don't already know how to do this, the really dumb ones should not be recieving an pointers on how to destroy our Nation -courtesy of the American Media.
When I called into the local ABC affilate, I reached the "viewer line" but the only person who answered the phone A) didn't even care what the national ABC broadcast was even showing on TV and B) didn't even respond to my request to route me to a viewer response voice mail box. The guy just said, "Just call someone else tomorrow."
I've already sent an reply to ABC Nation at- http://www.abcnews.go.com/service/Help/abcmail_news.html
I would suggest that you may contact ABC and let them know that "Hell no, We won't Glow! - That's a Job for Saddam!"
jriemer
Ashwari, with Terrorist and Murderer of Americans Arafat:
"Peter Jennings is my pet hamster.
We are so proud that he threw the American singer
out of the July4th celebration, and are very excited
that our lover has now given us knowledge of how
to smuggle uranium and plutonium into the US.
Thank you Peter. We would not have a chance to
destroy America without you."
Figures, I would get it wrong. U-235 / U-238. Hell, I'm so mad at ABC, I surprised I can spell their call letters right.
Jriemer - "never post in anger" x 100
Isn't this the "breader" reaction. Pardon my ignorance, I'm a MechE not a NucE.
jriemer
But i did have one question: I thought Bubba said that we didn't have enough on UBL to hold him when Sudan made the offer. The papers that Ross mentions suggest otherwise...
Uh, make that "separate out from U-238."
More importantly, the depleted uranium used in this stupid, contrived, exploding gas tank type, "story", does not have the radiation signiture that weapons grade or even spent reactor fuel would have. Which may explain why it didn't set off any alarms at various airports. It is just as chemically poisonous of course.
Anybody old enough to remember when most newsmen tried to report the news, not make it (up)?
I don't know but still, does that comfort you any?
Conventional nuclear reactors use uranium-235 as their fuel. However, uranium-235 makes up less than 1% of naturally occurring uranium. Most uranium occurs as the isotope uranium-238. The only problem is that uranium-238 can't be used in conventional nuclear reactors. It doesn't undergo fission like uranium-235. However, if uranium-238 could be used as a nuclear fuel, there would be sufficient uranium to run nuclear reactors for hundreds of years.
The Breeder Reactor was developed to use uranium-238. Here's how it works. A reactor is built with a core of fissionable plutonium, Pu-239. The plutonium-239 core is surrounded by a layer of uranium-238. As the plutonium-239 undergoes spontaneous fission, it releases neutrons. These neutrons convert uranium-238 to plutonium-239. In other words, this reactor breeds fuel (Pu-239) as it operates. After all the uranium-238 has been changed to plutonium-239, the reactor is refueled.
However, there are some major problems with the breeder reactor. To begin with, plutonium-239 is extremely toxic. If an individual inhales a small amount, he or she will contract lung cancer. Also, the half-life of the material is extremely long, about 24,000 years. This could create an almost impossible disposal problem if large amounts of this material are generated.
Also, because of the nature of the reactor core, water can't be used as a coolant. Instead, liquid sodium must be used. In the event of an accident a catastrophe could develop because sodium reacts violently with water and air.
Although the breeder reactor could solve the uranium fuel problem, there are still a number of other problems that will have to be worked out.
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SSSSh.
Jennings/Disney/ABC betrayed the US for ratings.
They are traitors (except Jennings who is not even an American, but sleeps with terrorists).
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