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Mixed Oxide Fuel, or MOX Fuel, Advantages and Disadvantages

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RDTroja:

--- Quote from: aabrams on May 05, 2005, 03:04 ---I'm pretty sure Pu-239's half-life is on the order of 24,000 years.  I would probably be more concerned about toxicity than radioactivity.
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Very true. I didn't even look at that -- and it should have stuck out like a sore thumb. If the half life of Pu-239 was in the 'hundreds of millions of years' range it would probably be naturally occurring. I guess that really makes 4.5 billion years look long.

SloGlo:

--- Quote from: RDTroja on May 05, 2005, 03:59 ---Very true. I didn't even look at that -- and it should have stuck out like a sore thumb. If the half life of Pu-239 was in the 'hundreds of millions of years' range it would probably be naturally occurring. I guess that really makes 4.5 billion years look long.

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even 4.5e9 isn't all that long on the scale of long lifed isotopics.  but in order to return to the topic, dealing with after effects of the engineers of this world is what some of us do best. ;)

alphadude:
lot of times its dealing with low bid and production goals-

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