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- From: yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: Greenpeace press releases -- fact or fiction?
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 15:54:44 GMT
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- In article <JMC.93Jan24215137@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
- >I'm sure that plutonium is considered valuable at Sellafield, so the
- >quantities release are as "trace" as they can make it.
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- Your intuition is incorrect. I've posted references to articles
- on Sellafield before. If you'd like, I'll post them again. Or if you
- visit the library, you could check the index of Nature or New Scientist.
- It is an established fact that Sellafield routinely releases plutonium
- into the Irish sea as a waste disposal method. Not all plutonium isotopes
- are "valuable", although this is not something you can learn from
- arithmetic.
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