From: "John Beamish" 

At 200 tons, that's about the weight of two empty 747's.

"Bill Lucy"  wrote in message
news:MPG.1b02046edd99fbaa989942{at}news.barkto.com...
> In article , georger{at}nls.net says...
> > Yeah ok, I've looked up DU weight before and I was surprised, but tons?
>
> In an RBMK-1500 plant like Chernobyl, there are fuel assemblies which
> contain ~110 kg of uranium. Each assembly is placed in a channel which
> is autonomous. This is one reason assemblies can be removed from RBMK-
> type reactors without shutting down the whole system.
>
> At Chernobyl, there were 1600 of those channels in reactor #4. Multiply
> at your leisure. 200 tons sounds about right to me.
>
> That doesn't count the other radionucleotides available.
>

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