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Britain is sending a huge nuclear waste shipment to America. Why?

Alan J. Wylie

Re: How is this waste?

> I believe, though I would like to see someone else do it first, that one can safely walk past a freshly manufactured fuel rod

When I was at school in the late 70's, someone from Sellafield/Windscale/Calder Hall came to our physics class and passed around a stick of Uranium, wrapped in polythene. It was very heavy, and rather warm.

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