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

Actually, the Soviets USED nukes for underground resivors...  They seem
to do ok
until they collapse and all that nasty stuff gets into the water supply.
 There
are areas of some city where particular types of birth defects are
"normal."  It
is true tragedy.

IAS

David wrote:

> 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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