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> " From: Dan Duncan <dand at pcisys.net>
> " 
> " 
> " I like nuclear.  I've always felt the waste should be shoved back
> " into the same uranium mine it came from in the first place.  The
> " place is ALREADY radioactive and the stuff you're putting back
> " has LESS radioactivity than it did when you pulled it out.  What's
> " the problem?
> 
> better would be to -use- that high-level 'waste', instead of dumping
> it.

Doesn't that stuff have enough juice left over to be used in the same
way say the Pioneer 10 and Voyager power supplies were used?

Maybe we could start building cheap probes to send out into space.

> " [0]  True story.  One of the guys ended up in the hospital after
> " another guy threw a hammer at his face from quite a distance.  The
> " company was investigating to determine whether they would be calling
> " the police after they fired his ass until they heard his side of the
> " story.  They had been working on one of the pipelines and broke for
> " lunch at which time hospital boy had started to light a cigarette.
> " That hammer probably saved the lives of the entire crew and was deemed
> " acceptable behavior.
> 
> i can believe it.  i've heard similar, though not as violent.

I've also heard such stories.

Mike Hebel

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