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TheWraith

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4. Why would it be?

Reply to DeathToTheOil (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 27, 2011, 05:30 PM

Dec 2011

The entire point is it's being taken somewhere that it can be, at the very least, reliably secured. If not downmixed into reactor fuel--that's what we've been doing with the weapons grade material freed up from decommissioned US and Russian nuclear weapons, remixing it for use in power plants.

Either way, I'm infinitely happier with the stuff being somewhere safe.

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Why would it be? TheWraith Dec 2011 #4

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So? McCamy Taylor Dec 2011 #13

This is spent reactor fuel that contains enriched Uranium. formercia Dec 2011 #16

This thread is almost as good JTFrog Dec 2011 #17

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No, I just read the thread. formercia Dec 2011 #22

Sno' nuff, ex-spook DeathToTheOil Dec 2011 #24

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