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Mon May 10 14:37:14 1982
Re: Deuterium
At a recent tour of the Pickering Nuclear Power station, one of the guides
stated that a 60 gallon drum of reactor grade D2O was worth $86000.  The
plant has a recovery and refining section to try and recover as much heavy
water from spent moderator as possible.  Any additional source of Deuterium
has got to be examined, but will it be economical?  (No anti-nuke mail, please.)
						John Winterton.
P.S. Pickering uses CANDU reactors, as do all
     Canadian power sites.  Expensive, but safer.

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