RE: So, is reprocessing in America's future?

[glen.vickers@EXELONCORP.COM]

There are no internationally installed cameras around the top of a reactor.

There is no practical way to steal any material from a commercial nuclear

reactor.  It would take them a good bit of time to get the fuel bundle into

a heavily shielded container and then drive it to the nearest border...

Even Barney Fife could stop such an attempt.



Glen Vickers







> -----Original Message-----

> From:	High Plains Drifter [SMTP:magna1@jps.net]

> Sent:	Monday, July 02, 2001 4:04 PM

> To:	Bauman, Rodney L. (84U) ; RADSAFE

> Subject:	Re: So, is reprocessing in America's future?

> 

> Furthermore, most US reactors have internationally installed cameras

> around

> the top of the vessel to help verify that the "non-weapons grade"

> plutonium

> is not pulled out and made into bombs.

> 

> However, I need some info on just how say the Hanford reactor made weapons

> grade plutonium differs than much from plutonium production during neutron

> bombardment of the applicable constituents in the fuel of a power reactor?

> 

> 

> "In science there is only physics; everything else is stamp collecting."

>                                       --Ernest Rutherford

> 

> Dean Chaney, CHP, IBA (aka High Plains Drifter)

> Fairfield, CA

> magna1@jps.net

> ----- Original Message -----

> From: "Bauman, Rodney L. (84U) " <84u@BECHTELJACOBS.ORG>

> To: "RADSAFE" <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 10:25 AM

> Subject: RE: So, is reprocessing in America's future?

> 

> 

> >

> > > I hope everyone on RadSafe knows that "weapons-grade" plutonium is

> very

> > > different from the plutonium produced in a commercial reactor. The

> > > difference is in the amount of Pu-240.

> > >

> > [Bauman, Rodney]   I've heard this over and over again and understand

> the

> > physics behind the Pu-239/Pu-240 weapons-grade vs. reactor-grade

> plutonium

> > argument.  But if in fact, commercial reactor spent fuel plutonium is

> not

> > suitable for weapons production, then why all the hoopla?  Why did Jimmy

> > Carter renounce (by Executive Order) the reprocessing of spent

> commercial

> > reactor fuel?  I've always been told that it was due to nuclear

> > proliferation concerns - due to the production of plutonium.  But,

> everybody

> > who knows plutonium says that reactor-grade plutonium is useless for

> > weapons.  Something stinks.

> >

> > Rodney Bauman, CHP, RRPT

> > 84u@bechteljacobs.org

> >

> >

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