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Sorry DV8 2XL, I didn't bother to look at the history page until I had added several things to this article, so I didn't see that it has been merged with Nuclear fuel cycle in the past. It makes sense, since I actually stole a paragraph from that article to explain the common nuclear fuel types. As is, I think it is adequate to have this page focus on fuel forms as I've tried to do since I haven't yet found anything else this specific about fuel forms on wikipedia (unless I've just never looked in the right place). Hopefully I'll be able to find pictoral examples of each, but I wouldn't hold my breath. Lcolson 22:29, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Reordering/formating

Nice work Cadmium, you added order to my chaotic additions. I didn't even think of adding MOX and UOX (some of the many improvements). Lcolson 01:52, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nice page

I have forgotten what ever it is I said about this page - but it looks good now. I've made a few additions to it and some wikilinks, and I'm going to write a section on the fuels used in atomic battery applications shortly. --DV8 2XL 19:55, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Global Nuclear Energy Partnership

In February, 2006, a new U.S. initiative, the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership was announced - it would be an international effort to reprocess fuel in a manner making proliferation infeasible, while making nuclear power available to developing countries. Would someone like to blend GNEP into this article? Simesa 20:57, 9 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fuels in pellet graphs?

Should not fuel be component or substance there? Midgley 03:47, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Using PCBs as Energy

Is it possible to generate and capture energy in the process of cleaning up PCB waste? Can that 'energy' be stored and used to power businesses or homes?

PCB's are not nuclear fuel, but a chemical byproduct from various industrial practices, so this is not the correct place to post this... but I'll humor you.

If I remember my chemistry right, PCB's are poly-chlorinated biphenols. I think it is a benzene ring on them that causes the problem (not sure... its been close to a decade since I learned about them). You probably could burn them for energy, but if the burning process wasn't complete you would probably get some polutants going out the stack and poluting the air and poisening people, which is why no-one has probably tried doing this.Lcolson 20:50, 17 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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 Is it possible to generate and capture energy in the process of cleaning up PCB waste?  Can that 'energy' be stored and used to power businesses or homes?
+::[[PCB]]'s are not nuclear fuel, but a chemical byproduct from various industrial practices, so this is not the correct place to post this... but I'll humor you.
+::If I remember my chemistry right, PCB's are poly-chlorinated biphenols.  I think it is a benzene ring on them that causes the problem (not sure... its been close to a decade since I learned about them).  You probably could burn them for energy, but if the burning process wasn't complete you would probably get some polutants going out the stack and poluting the air and poisening people, which is why no-one has probably tried doing this.[[User:Lcolson|Lcolson]] 20:50, 17 May 2006 (UTC)