Re: CFC-114

["Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@ucdavis.edu>]

At 06:52 AM 10/3/00 -0500, Cathy Lee wrote:
>
>It was recently claimed
>in a local newspaper that the gas diffusion
>process for making enriched uranium in two
>process plants released 292 tonnes of CFC-114
>(in 1995). ie nuke power is bad for global warming....
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October 3, 2000
Davis, CA

I don't know about a CFC-114 release, but a CFC is not a major "greenhouse
gas", so global warming is not a key issue. However, CFC's rise to the
stratosphere where they are believed to catalyze destruction of the
protective stratospheric ozone layer that absorbs incoming UV radiation
from the sun.

Otto
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