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- From: vulch@kernow.demon.co.uk (Anthony Frost)
- Reply-To: vulch@kernow.demon.co.uk
- Subject: Re: Breeder reactors
- Organization: VCS Kernow
- X-Mailer: ReaderS for the Acorn Archimedes
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:14:34 +0000
- Message-ID: <921223001434@kernow.demon.co.uk>
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- >> cost? (For that matter, how much does U235-depleted uranium
- >> cost?)
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- > I'd think it should be free to anyone wanting to haul it
- > away (though the governement probably doesn't treat it that
- > way).
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- I believe a fair quantity of it gets used in munitions. A depleted uranium
- slug coming out of some form of gun goes through armour plating quite
- nicely. Apparently, along with the bits that go bang, kids in Kuwait are
- encouraged not to pick up any they see round the desert due to slight
- residual radioactivity!
-
- Anthony
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