processing pliant in order to purify it and make it a
better es a cooling water, and this is run through th QO ronctor
and I would Jitse to male one very clicar distinction h ore between
the
kinds of isotonss that we have been talking about un to nov
and tho kings of isotopes that we get enti of this far sida of
the veactor,
We have been talking mainly in torms of fis h and
preducts,
the results of splitting uraniva atoms and axtes
they are senarated from the waste how they may get ba eck into
environmnonis.
IZ you exnlose an atenic bemb, this may con
an area from fission products, too.
The frol elenenats in the
reactor here arc completely isolated frou tho water.
uranium out of those fiugl elements, no fish and produ
the cooling water which is merely going by and keevins
cool.
The kinds of radio isotoxes which we get result fron
minerals which are present in- the water, to begin wit a, end
as these minerals go through the pllc, thoy are bomba rded by
the neutrons and becen> radioactive because of the ne utron
activation,
This is the same sort of a process as Dr
I suspect, would have at the Oak Ridge whera thoy are
some sort of isotone -- taking sone material, putting
pils, radiating it for a time and pulling it out, and
materials in this mannor.
As the material comos out,
it contains