Re: Nuclear Fuel

["John Johnson" <idias@interchange.ubc.ca>]

Otto



I would add using natural thorium to produce U-233 as a method that could be

used to insure we have enough fuel to last for many years. AECL/CRNL started

to do experiments to get the data needed for a thorium fuel cycle dring the

time I worked there in the seventies and eighties. After the high grade

uranium ore was discovered in Saskatchewan the cost of uranium stabilized

and the program is know on "hold".



John

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John R Johnson, PhD idias@interchange.ubc.ca



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

From: Otto G. Raabe <ograabe@UCDAVIS.EDU>

To: <RuthWeiner@AOL.COM>; <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 8:06 AM

Subject: Nuclear Fuel





> May 13, 2002

> Davis, CA

>

> Dear Ruth:

>

> Making nuclear fuel using plutonium and non-fissile depleted uranium will

> result addition fissile plutonium being produced during the nuclear energy

> cycle. Reprocessing of used fuel elements to recover the new and old

> plutonium for reuse is an important part of my statement that we already

> have enough fuel to power the whole century. That is, no more uranium

> mining will be needed if we use make and recover the new fissile material

> produced in the reactor. It may also be desirable to build breeder

reactors

> to optimize this process.

>

> Otto

>

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