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Re: JohnIraq post# 9395

Thursday, 04/19/2007 5:21:09 PM

Thursday, April 19, 2007 5:21:09 PM

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"I have found some figures that suggest a 1300 megawatt reactor consumes around 33 tons of U308 a year, and that approx 440,000 tons of ore need to be processed to generate the required 33 tons of U308."

33/440,000 = .000075 or .0075%. I don't think that seems very reasonable. I'm not sure what does, as there is other things that go into it aside from a pure conversion, but 33 tons per 440,000 tons ore seems like an underestimate by at least a factor of 10. even at .12%, we would get 528 tons out of 440,000 tons of ore.