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To: TigerLikesRooster

Seems like a waste of perfectly good radiation. Maybe they can figure out how to make use of the radioactive seawater to power cars, lawn mowers, BBQ grills, iPads, etc.


3 posted on 04/02/2011 1:07:40 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Cementjungle

That’s a little too true for Russia. I had dinner with a Russian nuclear scientist who told us all about a talk he was to give to an international body of scientists gathering in Georgia (USA). He was excited to be the one to brag to the foreign scientists about Russia’s innovations to remove the problem of radioactive waste (shortly before Chernobyl) . This was in the 1980’s. He stood up and began to tell them all about the way that Russia had conserved the waste by mixing them into concrete used to make schools and hospitals. First one scientist jumped to his feet to call to him “Please tell me this isn’t true!” then another. Pandemonium ensued as the audience recoiled in horror. My friend sheepishly said that Russia didn’t understand the health impacts very well and assumed that dilution with concrete was sufficient and believed that all the furor in the west about what to do with nuclear waste really had more to do with an unwillingness to waste valuable resources.


7 posted on 04/02/2011 1:30:07 AM PDT by ransomnote
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