[LMB] Nuclear Reactor Design
Richard Macdonald
don_iain at verizon.net
Fri Jan 4 09:08:28 GMT 2008
From: "Ed Burkhead" <edburkhead at insightbb.com>
>
> Also check out Scientific American from a couple years back. They
> discussed
> a reactor design that uses virtually all the energy from the fuel and the
> resulting waste is the short half-life stuff that's not nearly so
> dangerous.
I always worked on the basis that the shorter the half life,
the MORE dangerous the material as it should emit more
radiation over a given amount of time. But with my NBC
training, I am much more concerned over short term dosages.
--
Richard A. Macdonald, CPA/EA
SSG(Ret), USA, ADA, 16P34
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