RE: How DU was used in the production of Pu

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

On Fri, 2 Feb 2001 KKleinhans@fwenc.com wrote:

> 
> The UO3 from Hanford was from the separations plants, such as PUREX, that
> reprocessed the fuel from the production reactors.

	--What I don't understand is why would it be useful to use this
already depleted U as feed for a GDP. It would not be as good as natural U
for that purpose. Does anyone know how depleted the spent fuel from the Pu
production reactors was? 

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