Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Now I read it through again, I'm sure you're right Adam. I stand corrected. The subduction idea is not bad, only it's very hard to find a place where you could actually get the stuff moving into the zone, there's more chance of it being pulverised and distributed into convection currents back to the surface - there have been ideas of droppng it into the Marianas Trench too, but who knows what those kinds of pressures would do. However, the greatest problem and safety risk is still transporting it to wherever it's to be dumped.Although Chernobyl was so long ago, and relatively far away, there are still official warnings here about picking and eating wild mushrooms, apparently they still contain too much Strontium 90. Douglas Adam Bridge wrote: >Douglas I think you have it backwards. > >U-238 is the more common isotope of Uranium. Fuel is "enriched" to >increase the amount of U-235 in the fuel itself. I think the common >enrichment for commercial power reactors is on the order of 3%. Naval >reactors are enriched to almost pure U-235. > >I >