I just love your attitude about the U-233! Someday it WILL happen.

@Rod Adams:

Yes, ca. 1985, one of the dual D2G machines (USS California) liked to go from “modlock” 15% or so power to 100%. In just a few minutes. And then back to 15%. These were “drills,” i.e. just so we could show we could do it– you know, practice. The core was 13 years old or so. (Don’t remember the EFPHs, but it didn’t wear out ’til ’92). Yeah, the reactor operator had to “shim” a little in and out for a few hours after, but hey, that was his job if the Captain wanted to water-ski behind a rooster tail for a few minutes.

Dissolve the uranium in a carrier fluid, run the fluid into a core with a large enough volume to achieve a critical mass, and then bubble the Xenon-135 out of the reactor, Wigner replied.

But U-235 will not give enough neutrons to breed in a thermal reactor, Fermi said.

Yes but U-233 will, Wigner answered

For many thyroid conditions, Doctors prescribe massive doses of radioiodine as treatment, as much as 30 millicuries, or as Helen Caldicott would say “30 Million Picocuries!!!!”

This dose is MEANT to be INGESTED, not an accidental breath of a few thousand picocuries mind you, we’re talking millions of them ingested! This is what Doctors tell you to take. Nuclear plant employees receiving this treatment can’t go in to work because they would set off the radiation monitors from 300 feet away in the parking lot!

So I would seriously like to read the data they’re using for this ‘study’…I could use a good laugh.

One thing I was thinking about was the entire iodine issue. If you follow my posts on another list, you may have noticed me dealing with a man who believes people are getting sick in France, RIGHT NOW, from the iodine from Chernobyl. Yet iodine’s half-life is so short that by the time the “cloud” got to France, there couldn’t have been much left. I suppose I could have read this information in all sorts of publications, but seeing the short half-life of iodine as a problem for reactor operators was illuminating.