Posted on 01/07/2011 9:47:41 PM PST by Straight Vermonter
Please do some research before you post:
“U-233 is produced from thorium-232 by neutron capture. It can be made highly pure because it can be chemically separated from Th-232 rather than by mass, which is far easier. Therefore, there is no weapons-grade concentration for U-233. Since it can relatively easily be made pure, it is regulated as a special nuclear material only by the total amount present rather than by concentration or concentration combined with the amount. Uranium-232 is a contaminant that is present only in small amounts, but whose highly radioactive decay products like thallium-208 make handling more difficult.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons-grade
This type of reactor design would be safe as soon as the power was turned off .
On a different note ,that radiation level at Fukushima plant one would kill you if you were exposed for a day.
” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano says the level of radiation around the quake-damaged Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant is high enough to affect human health.
Edano told reporters on Tuesday morning that 400 millisieverts of radiation per hour had been detected around the plant’s No.3 reactor building at 10:22 AM.” ...
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/15_37.html
If I did my math right that is 40 rads per hour which would give you a lethal dose in less than a day . That exposure level means you would be dead in a month .
I was going to post this but I don’t want to be an alarmist .
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