Looking into this PUREX/Hanford stuff, I was curious to see if I could find what the Pu production rates were in the 1950s. And I did:pic.twitter.com/rKvdPo95mI
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Recovery of the uranium? I assume to be reused in the reactors? How many run-throughs could they get I wonder?
Probably a few— Pu-production reactors cycle fuel through relatively quickly, to avoid Pu-240 buildup. So much of the U-235 is unburnt.
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235? I thought it was 238 in the plutonium reactors? Or is it both?
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It still needs U235 fissioning to create the neutrons that turn U238 into Pu239. The fuel was unenriched (<1% U235).
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