Re: re Nuclear Power

[rkathren@tricity.wsu.edu (ron kathren)]

Wade --


You mean OKLO, the natural 'reactor' that was found in Gabon.  Recall that
only a small fraction of the U is fissioned, and the rest remains in situ.
Thus your comments, albeit correct, need to be considered in this light as well.

Ron

>To: Radsafe Group
>Re: Nuclear Power
>Remember the OKHLO reactor ? The nuclear waste from it is completely benign.
>With respect to reactor waste in general, if one first removes the
>transuranics, and watches over the remaining waste for 300 years, it is, from
>then on, less of a toxic and radiation hazard than was the original U plus
>daughters from which the reactor fuel was extracted.
>Wade Patterson
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