[steve0]

Thank you!!. The reader makes my point we need to get away from the leftist propaganda that all nuclear technology is dangerous, polluting, toxic etc. We would feed millions more and save billions in dollars if we would only use Food Irradiation. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_irradiation

# 1970 Establishment of the International Food Irradiation Project (IFIP), head quarters at the Federal Research Centre for Food Preservation, Karlsruhe, Germany
# 1980 FAO/IAEA/WHO Joint Expert Committee on Food Irradiation recommends the clearance generally up to 10 kGy “overall average dose”
# 1981/1983 End of IFIP after reaching its goals
# 1983 Codex Alimentarius General Standard for Irradiated Foods: any food at a maximum “overall average dose” of 10 kGy
# 1984 International Consultative Group on Food Irradiation (ICGFI) becomes the successor of IFIP
# 1997 FAO/IAEA/WHO Joint Study Group on High-Dose Irradiation recommends to lift any upper dose limit
# 2003 Codex Alimentarius General Standard for Irradiated Foods: no longer any upper dose limit
# 2004 ICGFI ends

[HiTech RedNeck]

Irradiating food and exploding a nuke underwater are vastly different enterprises.

[Smokin' Joe]

You aren't irradiating chicken drummies here, you are setting off an explosion with a theoretical yield in a reservoir of unkonwn geometry, pore and permeability characteristics, filled with compressible fluids under pressure.

In a nutshell, this has not been done before, because the Russians didn't do it under a mile of ocean.

Eat your chicken, put your firecrackers away, and let the professionals handle it.