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Old 28-June-2007, 02:05 PM
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Maybe not. Yttrium oxide and zirconium oxide both form very stable ceramics (yttrium stablized zirconia is very tough stuff and very corrosion resistant). But I'm not sure how they will behave as minor components in some system and the radiochemistry changes this (radiation damage to solids, particularly alpha particle and neutron damage)
Right. That zirc is very stable.

But re the Strontium-90, ingest enough and you've committed the ultimate boner. Plus it definitely has an effect on the gene pool, warm or not.

But none of that matters, because the overriding factor is, IT'S COOL!
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