From: "Phil Payne" 

> > I was thinking of the political consequences of having to try and rescue
a
> > few thousand irradiated casualties from a crippled and highly
radioactive
> > environment in what had become very unsafe waters.

> Nah. Fun thing about radioactive elements is that they're heavy & heavy
> sinks.

Funny, then, that some of the Chernobyl stuff reached Wales.

Almost all elements have radioactive isotopes.  Some are hghly reactive and
quite a few form gases.  A "hot" reactor that's suddenly
disrupted and combined with other materials - and salt water is a _LULU_ -
can do all sorts of things.

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