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Old 10-31-2007, 22:21 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Does anybody know if plutonium can be used to generate electricity? Dale?
CANDU heavy water reactors use natural Uranium that is not enriched. They can also use MOX (mixed oxide fuel) which is a mixture of natural uranium and plutonium from spent uranium, and from dismantled Nuclear weapons. Also depleted uranium from light water reactors can be recycled in CANDU reactors.

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