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Re: How big is a troopship? [DS/FT/SG2] (and what it all means)

From: David <dluff@e...>
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 12:38:32 -0400
Subject: Re: How big is a troopship? [DS/FT/SG2] (and what it all means)

Also the Russians have been dumping off their north coast the same
nuclear material.  Very bad!

Ryan M Gill wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Brian Burger wrote:
> 
> > I've read stuff that indicates that using nukes to 'dig' spherical
> > underground water reseviors was seriously considered by various
people, in
> > the US and the USSR. Scary stuff - this is all from before the
notion of
> > lingering radioactivity was around...
> 
> The russians _did_ use nukes for massive construction projects. One of
> the reasons they have such an environmental crisis on their hands.
There
> is a lake where the Soviets dumped waste into. No sheilding or
anything.
> Just raw fissables into it. It has all sorts of isotopes dissolved
into
> the water. If you stand by the water for 10 minutes sans a suit, you
get
> a lethal dose. Not the greatest thing...
> 
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