[FormerLurker]

DILUTION IS THE SOLUTION TO POLLUTION.

Oh c'mon, you can't be serious. Perhaps you'd like to take a little plutonium pill to 'dilute' it? With our technology, it'd be fairly easy to neutralize toxins and THEN introduce the resultant substance into the environment. It WOULD cost money though, and of course we don't want to spend ANY money on anything we aren't FORCED to...

Radioactive wastes, well, they aren't so easily "neutralized". Perhaps they should be reprocessed into nuclear fuel, perhaps they should be handled as they currently are. But all the other toxic wastes COULD be reprocessed or neutralized if so desired...

[Hunble]

Uh, if you ever visit my home, you will find some radioactive melted sand from our first Atomic Bomb. It is rather proudly displayed in my living room.

Yes, send me my share of the US Radioactive wastes (divided by 270 million) and I would have absolutely no problem dropping this tiny pill into a hole in my back yard.

DOSAGE!!!!!

[dila813]

Oh, I got to tell you about this.

I once worked at a radioactive and biological disposal company. The things that are contaminated is very broad.

Most of the waste is paper towels that don't even look like they have been used. Rubber gloves, tongue depressors, hospital gowns, etc...

There are lots of radioactive isotopes besides the bad ones you are thinking of. If you had a Geiger counter you might be able to walk around your kitchen and find some of your food actually emits mild amounts of radioactivity.