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

["Ted Rockwell" <tedrock@CPCUG.ORG>]

> ...three days after Pearl Harbor wrote a report concluding that

> the fission products formed in only a single day of operating a nuclear

reactor

>at a power of 100,000 kilowatts might be enough to render a large area

>uninhabitable.



I figured someone else would comment on this, but if no one else will, let

me note that "three days after Pearl Harbor" there was no such thing as a

nuclear reactor.  Fermi did not demonstrate the first nuclear chain reaction

until a year later.  Is the PH reference correct?



I realize people speculated about atomic energy before that.  Maybe that is

what was going on.



Can someone enlighten me?



Thanks,



Ted Rockwell





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