I was kind of impressed by the yield/waste ratio. Some of the waste was uranium that could later be re-used in the reactors.
During the Manhattan Project, for every ton of uranium Hanford processed they got 225 grams of plutonium, and 15,000 gallons of waste.
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Curious as to source, would help with my research - is this drawn from Gerber's book?
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Manhattan District History, Book 4, Vol 6:http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/09/05/general-groves-secret-history/ …
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Is that because of the Bismuth-Phosphate process?
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It's the waste-yield ratio of it, yes
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Your mixing of metric and imperial units leads me to the question: which units did they use in the manhattan programm?
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Depends on the context, like so many things. But these numbers come from their own internal, secret history of the project.
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Interesting.
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Do you have any handle on the energy breakdown? Wondering about gigawatt/hour per bomb to compare joules-in vs joules-out.
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