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

["Raymond Shadis" <shadis@ime.net>]

> Franz,

 Quite so! On line refueling. Have you references that confirm they pulled

their fuel at low burn-up right under the noses of Canadian and IAEA

oversight? Does anyone have data or references regarding the Pu-240 levels

in the fuel the Indians "scavenged" for their bomb? I apologize for the use

of the term , "scavenge" , I meant it in the loose sense of drawing off a

minor portion. Thank you for your patience.                          Ray



----- Original Message -----

From: Franz Schoenhofer <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>

To: Raymond Shadis <shadis@ime.net>; NECNP <necnp@necnp.org>;

<radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 4:49 PM

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





>

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----

> Von: Raymond Shadis <shadis@ime.net>

> An: NECNP <necnp@necnp.org>; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

> <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

> Datum: Dienstag, 03. Juli 2001 21:57

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

>

>

> >RE: Proliferation:

> >Am I mistaken or did India not scavenge enough  material from its power

> >reactor program to build and detonate a work-a-day bomb or two?

>

>

> Yes, you are. India has not scavenged, but deliberately produced  b o m

b -

> plutonium (at least for sure for their first bomb exploded decades ago) in

> their CANDU-power-reactors (heavy water cooled and moderated natural

uranium

> reactors), which are because of their construction suitable to easily

change

> the fuel rods after a short irradiation time without interrupting power

> production. From these fuel rods  b o m b - plutonium is extracted. See

Zack

> Claytons mail on the background for production of bomb plutonium and the

> difference to ordinary power reactor plutonium as produced by reprocessing

> plants from commercial nuclear fuel. They have only done what other

nations

> have done before. The bombs were obviously of the same or better "quality"

> as the early ones of the super-powers and sure not of the type that some

> people claim, can be theoretically built from reprocessed "reactor

> plutonium". (If I remember correctly India exploded more than two, the

first

> one decades ago.)

>

> Franz

>

>

>

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