It's called the Pole Adit. And it does have tungsten, a little bit of tungsten, left over, that's the kind of mine it was.

This is the first time that the plutonium rich carbide fuel has been reprocessed anywhere in the world.

The response to a bad idea like, say, a tungsten light bulb is a better idea. OK?

Alloyed steels, which are sometimes also called special steels and may be considered specialty products, contain small portions of alloying elements such as chromium, cobalt, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, niobium, silicon, tungsten or vanadium.

The indigenously developed unique plutonium rich mixed carbide fuel used in the fast breeder test reactor (FBTR) has performed extremely well, having operated past a burn up of 148,000 megawatt day per tonne (MWd t) without a single fuel pin failure.

That message still resonates today, though it was spectacularly wrong. For example, the authors of The Limits to Growth predicted that before 2013, the world would have run out of aluminum, copper, gold, lead, mercury, molybdenum, natural gas, oil, silver, tin, tungsten, and zinc.

The coal comes from Colombia, and costs 300 per ton if Antillana had been able to negotiate with United States manufacturer UCAR, from which it would be able to get the world's best carbide graphite electrode, that raw material would be obtained free, because of the contract undertakings UCAR has with its purchasers.

The American economist Julian Simon allegedly issued a challenge in 1980 to a group of environmentalists, saying that if scarcity were to be measured in terms of higher prices, they should invest in stocks of any raw metal. The environmentalists put their money on chromium, copper, nickel, tin, and tungsten, and picked a time frame of 10 years.