RE: How DU was used in the production of Pu

["Stokes, James" <StokesJ@ttnus.com>]

 The spent fuel from tthe production reactors was greater than .711% and
less than 2%.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bernard L Cohen
To: Multiple recipients of list
Sent: 2/2/01 10:33 AM
Subject: RE: How DU was used in the production of Pu


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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