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  1. 10-14-2009, 09:16 PM #1
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    Germanys atomic waste slowly rotting away in russia?

    http://translate.google.com/translat...hl=en&ie=UTF-8

    wow, thats scary lol...
    those barrels are just stockpiled there under the open sky???
    over 20.000 tons? 0_o

    wtf? the gogole translation is a nightmare...
    the german nuclear plant industry has sent 27.000 tons of atomic waste, burned out uranium rods and other junk, to russia to have it enriched again... they basically seperate the still usable uranium from the other atoms that resulted of the chain reaction and arent useful. the idea is to just do the seperation afaik, so kinda like recycling, and then they send it back to germany where the remaining uranium is used again and the yummy soup of whatever else remained is stored for future generations. who will undoubtfully worship us until the end of time for this incredible treasure we are burried below their feet

    anyhow, it turns out most of the stuff never came back...and was never actually processed... its just rotting away under the open sky in russia
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  2. 10-14-2009, 09:24 PM #2
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    Yeah, why am I not surprised. Although the stuff doesn't really "rot".
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    yeah this is all true, they have buried it next to my house, i havent been feeling well lately, and complained.

    two men with vodka breath turned up and took my sister and mother away in a car, that was last month
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  4. 10-15-2009, 12:35 AM #4
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    Quote Originally Posted by DosDuoNo View Post
    two men with vodka breath turned up and took my sister and mother away in a car, that was last month
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    lol
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    That was me. Your mother makes good Gulash, BTW. Thanks.!
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    Quote Originally Posted by YukonTrooper View Post

    Well, after eating only potatoes for an eternity, even grass would taste good.
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    All hail Wikipedia:
    About 95% of the depleted uranium produced to date is stored as uranium hexafluoride, DUF6, in steel cylinders in open air yards close to enrichment plants. Each cylinder contains up to 12.7 tonnes (or 14 US tons) of solid UF6. In the U.S. alone, 560,000 tonnes of depleted UF6 had accumulated by 1993. In 2005, 686,500 tonnes in 57,122 storage cylinders were located near Portsmouth, Ohio, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Paducah, Kentucky.

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    A lot of this could go away if people would just build some of those...what are they...fast breeder reactors? The kind that doesn't require super rich fuel and will continue to use the same rods until they're mostly worthless instead of highly radioactive.
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    Indeed.
    Modern horribly inefficient, unnecessarily expensive and inherently unstable pressurized water reactors make no sense - except for those companies that build them and sell the fuel. MSR (molten salt) or FBR types should be the only types allowed to make.
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    Quote Originally Posted by largon View Post
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    are you telling me the us has stockpiles of barrels full of burned out rod leftovers rotting under the open sky as well? 0_o ???

    lol, germany is at least smart enough to ship it somewhere else to rot LOL...
    prepare for a couple barrels full of christmas gifts at the end of the year mexico!
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    Quote Originally Posted by saaya View Post
    are you telling me the us has stockpiles of barrels full of burned out rod leftovers rotting under the open sky as well? 0_o ???

    lol, germany is at least smart enough to ship it somewhere else to rot LOL...
    prepare for a couple barrels full of christmas gifts at the end of the year mexico!
    It doesn't rot.
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    Quote Originally Posted by [XC] riptide View Post
    It doesn't rot.
    correct me if im wrong, but the barrels do?
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  15. 10-17-2009, 09:38 AM #15
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    Quote Originally Posted by saaya View Post
    correct me if im wrong, but the barrels do?
    Well.... They might rot away eventually. But it all depends what sort of material these barrels are made of. They could last 100 years?
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