[ RadSafe ] MOX Fuel and latest Leuren Moret injection intoFukushima
Dr. Francis Y. Tsang
francistsang at cox.net
Fri Mar 25 10:34:08 CDT 2011
Larry,
You mentioned a significant amount of energy in LWR is from the Pu fission.
Can you provide some values per reactor design?
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[mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Larry Addis
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intoFukushima
Engineering friends look somewhat confused when I explained LWR's don't just
make plutonium in principle. A significant amount of energy produced by
commercial LWR's actually does comes from plutonium fission. It's no
accident, but by design as it were.
LA
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[mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of George Stanford
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Fukushima
About 1.2% of spent fuel is plutonium anyway. While MOX
might double or triple that, there is no significant increase in
hazard. The hazard is in the fission products, which are the
same either way.
-- George Stanford
Reactor physicist, retired
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At 04:54 AM 3/25/2011, Roger Helbig wrote:
How much plutonium is in MOX? Does it present a significantly greater
hazard than the uranium dioxide in conventional nuclear fuel rods? The
anti-nuclear community is making a major issue about the unit with MOX in
the spent fuel pool and now I believe that there are concerns with that
reactor's containment integrity as well. The anti-nukes make this sound
like the reactor being more potentially deadly than Chernobyl. Thanks.
Roger
PS - Leuren Moret has put an article into the Japan Times - if any of you
have Japanese connections, please, make them aware of how much of a fraud
that Moret is - she is an exceptional self-promoter, typical anything for a
"buck" or in her case angling for a free plane ticket, hotel and food (and
plenty of bottled water if she goes to Tokyo even though she is about 65 and
clearly not pregnant or a nursing mother)
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20040523x2.html
Japan's deadly game of nuclear roulette
By LEUREN MORET
Special to The Japan Times
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