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  4. From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
  5. Subject: Re: Breeders
  6. Message-ID: <Bzoq52.MMM@zoo.toronto.edu>
  7. Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:48:34 GMT
  8. References: <Bzn3tH.2A0.1@cs.cmu.edu> <ZOWIE.92Dec22141804@daedalus.stanford.edu>
  9. Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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  12. In article <ZOWIE.92Dec22141804@daedalus.stanford.edu> zowie@daedalus.stanford.edu (Craig "Powderkeg" DeForest) writes:
  13. >...In Canada, they don't enrich their uranium at all for
  14. >the CANDU reactors -- by using heavy water as a moderator, they
  15. >improve the fission efficiency to where natural uranium is sufficient.
  16.  
  17. Actually, not quite true.  The CANDU can burn natural uranium quite
  18. happily, but it's somewhat more efficient with slightly-enriched uranium,
  19. and that's what our CANDU power reactors normally use.  If it became
  20. costly or hard to get, we'd switch.
  21. -- 
  22. "God willing... we shall return."       | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
  23.        -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
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