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- From: constant@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Tino)
- Subject: Re: Pu production (was: Greennazis
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.175049.1100@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Keywords: Plutonium! Satan! Evil! Danger! Run Away! Run Away!
- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 17:50:49 GMT
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- In article <FqG=1W-@engin.umich.edu> pkeller@engin.umich.edu (Paul Michael Keller) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov20.031642.24587@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> constant@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Tino) writes:
- >
- >>I believe that if you crank out the math (342,000 lb UO2 for a PWR), you'll
- >>get about 3-4 pounds of plutonium per GWe/year. This is the total plutonium,
- >>so you'll have to find the Pu isotopic ratios (posted a little while back).
- >
- >Uh, pardon me but did you put a decimal point in the wrong place? More like
- >300-400 lb plutonium per GWe/year. 342,000 lb UO2 is also a bit high even
- >for a large PWR. The core loading for my former place of employment,
- >the largest PWR station in the US, is only 257,000 lb.
-
- Yep, my fault. There would be more PU production (still, none of it bomb-
- grade (disclaimer for environmentalists)). The weight of the fuel was taken
- from Nero, so I'd have to check to see the capacity. It may be a 1400 MWe or
- more (Nero's book was written in the 70's when everybody was a bit more
- optimistic).
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- Tino
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