RE: How DU was used in the production of Pu

[Bernard L Cohen <blc+@pitt.edu>]

On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Rodney Bauman wrote:
> 
>  Starting in 1952, the GDPs
> (mostly Paducah) received "recycled" uranium from Hanford in the form of
> UO3.  The UO3 was converted to UF6 and fed into the cascades to supplement
> the natural feed stream.  The program was so efficient that during FY 1973,
> approx. 65% of Paducah's cascade feed was of "recycled" origin.

	-What was the source of the U03 from Hanford? If it was from Pu
production reactors, it would be depleted and therefore less efficient as
a feed for a GDP than natural U. 

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