Re: Hazards of Coal Burning was RE: Hydrogen as SCAM?

From: Chuck Kuecker (ckuecker@ckent.org)
Date: Tue Feb 04 2003 - 19:42:01 MST

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    Again, I refer to the Argonne Labs IFR. They had proof of concept reactors
    running when my favorite Pres shut 'em down.

    Pu is good stuff - it fissions and makes lots of juicy heat, just like
    U...as long as it's sealed in the containment, who cares?

    Chuck Kuecker

    At 13:53 02/04/2003 -0500, you wrote:
    >"Chuck Kuecker" <ckuecker@ckent.org>
    >
    > > The proper way to dispose of high-level waste is to irradiate it inside
    > >the reactor vessel to promote it's decay to stable isotopes.
    >
    >That seems to me to be enormously difficult, the spent fuel rods contain a
    >hodgepodge of different elements and isotopes and they would all have to
    >sorted out with expensive machinery, otherwise exposing them to a neutron
    >flux would just make things worse, and produce a lot of Plutonium too.
    >
    > John K Clark jonkc@att.net

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