To: Robert A. Cook, PE
I defer to your knowledge, but it seems the way to get rooms full of very high-level stuff it by reprocessing spent fuel to extract plutonium.
104 posted on
04/09/2003 3:27:34 PM PDT by
Ditto
(You are free to form your own opinions, but not your own facts.)
To: Ditto
Yes!
The Pu239 is produced as a by-product of inserting "regular" fuel into the reactor, then letting it "burn" for a while.
Then you pull several thousand pounds of HIGHLY RADIOACTIVE!!! (emphasis added) rods out, separate the Pu239 and U235 from the waste products (which creates deadly gasses and acidic waste products of dissolved metals and "junk") then take the separated grams of Pu239 to the bomb-making facility.
The rods are re-mixed, put back in the reactor, and you do it again. We are still "playing" with the tanks of liquid waste from WWII at hanford WA; and here, Hussein buried it in unlined drums in an aquifer next to a river!
Stupid. Criminally stupid.
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