Re: HEU in Yugoslavia,

["Speercl" <Speercl@EARTHLINK.NET>]

I have no knowledge of the fuel recovered from Yugoslavia but I would like

to comment regarding "Is it just me or is approx. 7 grams per rod kind of

low?"  In the late 1950s the Pentagon started Project Pluto.  This project

involved a 500 mega-watt nuclear ram jet engine that contained 500,000 HEU

fuel rods.  Each rod was a small tube less than an inch long and probably

weighed less than 2 grams each.  They were built by a ceramic company owned

by Adolph Coors ( yeah, the same guy who now makes a pretty good brew).  For

a pretty good review of the project and some pics of the reactor see:

http://www.merkle.com/pluto/pluto.html



Carl Speer

Real-Time Radiological Services, Inc.

North Las Vegas, NV

rtrs@earthlink.net

www.realtimerad.com





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

From: High Plains Drifter <magna1@jps.net>

To: John Ahlquist <john.ahlquist@ucop.edu>; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

<radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Date: Saturday, August 31, 2002 6:30 AM

Subject: Re: HEU in Yugoslavia,





>Subject: HEU in Yugoslavia,

>

>.....>  Under heavy guard and security precautions, Russia reclaimed

>possession from

>>Yugoslavia last week of 6,000 rods of fresh, highly enriched uranium,

known

>as HEU. The >shipment weighed only 45 kilograms ....

>

>Is it just me or is approx. 7 grams per rod kind of low?  They say the

whole

>shipment weighed around 45 kilograms- therefore, 7 grams is on the high

side

>for the HEU in each "rod".  Just imagine the mass of 6,000 items of any

>shape (visable to the eye) comprised of Uranium.

>

>H. Dean Chaney, CHP

>URS Corp. Sacramento, CA

>(916) 679-2086

>

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

>                                      --Ernest Rutherford

>>

>

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