Jones Beene wrote:
Harry
I Wrote:
The BBC showed some footage of the nuclear facilities. What
interested me the most, is the line that was producing heavy water.
A heavy water reactor is a plutonium 239 generator,
You are making an incorrect jump in logic here which leads to the
direct *opposite* conclusion.
All uranium fueled reactors -ALL- as in 100%, are plutonium
generators, and the heavy water makes zero difference in that regard.
Heavy water is actually indicative of a civilian program, unless or
even if there is concurrent thorium breeding.
I read that a light water reactor produces Pu 240 which is not fissile,
it that incorrect?
You can trust the BBC on most things, more so than the US Networks -
unless the story involves so-called "state secrets" as this does. The
Beeeb are masters of disinformation in that
Their liberal bias is a regular subject on talk radio, but they are an
organ of the British government, which clearly has it's own agenda.
The reason that heavy water is used elsewhere is that - in intelligent
civilian programs it makes for the most efficient reactor, and
cheapest power output by far, even accounting for the high cost of
D2O... IOW you get from 10-20 times more kWhr per pound of mined
Uranium (assuming a 5% burn before refueling in either case).
Thank you for pointing that out.
Enrichment (and this is our dirty little secret) leaves so-called
"depleted" U which still contains 40% to nearly half of the original
fissile content. This is something the DoD has tried to hide for years.
IMHO, it isn't necessary to put DU into projectiles either.
Are you following me on that critical detail? - up to 400 pounds of
wasted U for every pound actually burned in a GE reactor!
The USA is the stupid party here, in that we decided against heavy
water early on- "because of" the weapons program and the greed of the
General Electric Company. They may be a
I think that it's more greed than stupidity.
As far as Iran goes, they could get Pu from any and all civilian
reactors, and all you need to look for - as the smoking gun - is a
reprocessing facility, but these can be hidden underground. Yes
Or they could get assembled bombs from the Russians, it has been
reported that this is the case.
...in fact the best weapons fuel is NOT Plutonium anyway - but is 233U
which is bred from thorium. For this you do benefit
Another interesting fact I haven't heard before.
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