[ RadSafe ] Absurd? Oh, the irony!

[Muckerheide, James]

Are there any long-lived activation products?  How big a "problem" is C-14?
 
Regards, Jim 

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From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl on behalf of Bernard Cohen
Sent: Thu 6/30/2005 9:59 AM
To: Otto G. Raabe
Cc: radsafe at radlab.nl
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Absurd? Oh, the irony!




Otto G. Raabe wrote:

> Of course, there are also going to be large quantities of contaminated
> waste materials produced by neutron activation of reactor components
> and other materials in and around a fusion reactor. So fusion reactors
> may produce large quantities of radioactive waste.

       ---In all that has been written in publications for the public
about the dangers of radioactive waste, I have never seen any reference
to the quantity of radioactivity involved. As a public issue, quantities
are apparently irrelevant. So I don't see the difference between fusion
and fission radioactive wastes as a public issue. This is a strange
world we are dealing with!

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