"Kristy Ogilvie" wrote in message
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On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 21:07:49 -0000, Tim Streater
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In article , Kristy Ogilvie
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On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 20:03:23 -0000, Rod Speed
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On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 09:06:12 -0000, The Natural Philosopher
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On 15/12/2018 22:52, Kristy Ogilvie wrote:
On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 17:14:15 -0000, Rod Speed
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But no one has ever nicked any used fuel rods
being moved for reprocessing in the west.
I don't believe you.
Occasionally by some fresakl of nature Rod speed is vctaully correct.
Used fuel rods are virtually useless and somewhat dangerous. And
covered
by so muuch tracking paperwork it is inconcievable that any went
missing
unnoticed.
Behind the iron curtain all bets are of course off.
But I thought spent fuel was used for making weapons.
Only in places like North Korea. In the first world they have
dedicated nukes to make whats used in bombs because
those do it much better than power generation nukes.
Its only the dregs of the world that can afford dedicated
nukes for producing whats used in bombs.
So used fuel rods are not useless then.
No, AIUI only 1% of the fuel in the rod will have been used, the rod
can be reprocessed and unused fuel extracted. Whether it's worth doing
that just yet is another matter.
https://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-power...r-reprocessing
"Reprocessing is a series of chemical operations that separates plutonium
and uranium from other nuclear waste contained in the used (or €śspent€ť)
fuel from nuclear power reactors. The separated plutonium can be used to
fuel reactors, but also to make nuclear weapons. In the late 1970s, the
United States decided on nuclear non-proliferation grounds not to
reprocess
? spent fuel from U.S. power reactors, but instead to directly
dispose of it in a deep underground geologic repository where it would
remain isolated from the environment for at least tens of thousands of
years."
Irrelevant to the fact that very little of what gets used
in weapons comes from reprocessed used fuel rods.