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- From: pgf@srl01.cacs.usl.edu ("Phil G. Fraering")
- Subject: Breeders
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 02:46:14 GMT
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- \Session's Answer was too flipant. The reason the U.S. doesn't hav mre
- /ooops have more breeder reactors is that the anti-nuke forces won a battle
- \in the late seventies and President Jimmy Carter stopped the development
- /of them. The arguements given revolved around the proliferation of
- \Plutonium that the reactors "breed" and not on the safety of the
- /reactors. The nuke power industry was trying to sell them as the answer
- \to lmited supplies of nuclear fuel (o.k. expensive supplies) because they
- /produce 5 lbs of fuel for every 4 they consume. Unfortunately, the
- \plutonium is also a great nuke weapon resource.
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- From what I've heard, it's the wrong isotope or mixed with such as
- to be useless in constructing a nuclear bomb.
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- Of course, don't let that stop you from freezing in the dark,
- yankee...
- --
- Phil Fraering
- "...drag them, kicking and screaming, into the Century of the Fruitbat."
- <<- Terry Pratchett, _Reaper Man_
- PGP key available if and when I ever get around to compiling PGP...
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