Path: csiph.com!tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Nuclear plants. Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2025 20:23:40 +0200 Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <10a6nt3$1c65i$1@dont-email.me> <10a9qlq$25h61$1@dont-email.me> <10ac80j$2nuve$1@dont-email.me> <10ac8lq$2nkob$2@dont-email.me> <68d087a6@news.ausics.net> <10ar9d9$2a86g$1@dont-email.me> <68d1d3e6@news.ausics.net> <10atuhj$2tidd$15@dont-email.me> <68d333e6@news.ausics.net> <8vvdqlxsif.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10b1qqt$3ur87$1@dont-email.me> <10b30vh$5u19$15@dont-email.me> <10b38ru$8o78$1@dont-email.me> <10b3m3n$chkk$1@dont-email.me> <10b3tk2$ekmk$1@dont-email.me> <10b4006$f07a$3@dont-email.me> <10b5or6$sr6j$12@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net aUc9tDfDSpgDmMXVufZGtweEPtrgwelhLDlX7fbA3aKEWM4pkk X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:TqbflP9Cgv1pSqfBhCXF9zBr7ro= sha256:5sSONdJmn43fuW86lWmonW7bYmG7PWjUbw0vuaRwkHE= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:75307 alt.comp.os.windows-11:24592 On 2025-09-26 18:36, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2025-09-26, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > >> Caesium strontium and iodine. And tritium especially. Other stuff is far >> more short lived. Xenon for example. Once the above are at low levels >> then you can reprocess the rods to recover plutonium U235 and U238 > > Are you sure about tritium? Its decay releases only 18.6 keV. > I had a watch with a tritium dial and never worried about it, > since the radiation wouldn't even make it through my outer > skin layer, let alone the metal back of the watch. Some smoke alarms use some nuclear radiation source, americium-241. They are very cheap, used in Canada for instance. -- Cheers, Carlos. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;