On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Paul F. Dietz wrote:
> There's another objection to electrolysis, btw: if you have large scale
> electrolysis, it's rather easy to modify the system to produce a side stream
> of heavy water ... So large scale electrolysis means
> any country can have a clandestine plutonium production program for little
> extra cost.
Moderators (the thing heavy water is good for) generally are not the
bottleneck in getting set up for plutonium production. And if you really
do want heavy water, there are much more efficient ways of making it. So
this particular objection seems of no great importance.
Henry Spencer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
_______________________________________________
ERPS-list mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
