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- From: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Breeder reactors
- Message-ID: <1h7efkINNe9a@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 16:07:16 GMT
- References: <BznFpx.93v.1@cs.cmu.edu>
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- In article <BznFpx.93v.1@cs.cmu.edu> roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John
- Roberts) writes:
- > How much does uranium sufficiently enriched for use in commercial
- reactors
- > cost? (For that matter, how much does U235-depleted uranium cost?)
-
- I'd think it should be free to anyone wanting to haul it away
- (though the governement probably doesn't treat it that
- way). If you drive by any of the three government gaseous
- diffusion plants, you'll see large cylinder after large cylinder of
- depleted uranium piled up. Most of this stuff is just a storage
- problem for the plants. You'd think that if someone was actually
- going to use it to generate electricity, they'd be willing to
- just give it away.
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- Jim Mann
- Stratus Computer jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
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