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From: jwm@aplvax.jhuapl.edu (Jim Meritt)
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Subject: Re: Nuclear Reactors in Space
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Date: 17 Jan 90 17:43:49 GMT
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In article <9638@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
}what I heard over and over in the mainstream press was on the order of
}1 in 2,000 of a major accident that would breach the containment and
}release plutonium.  Given that such an accident could kill thousands
}of people in the long term, that's nowhere near good enough.  If we

How?

Given that one made it back to earth at 25,000 mph straight down with
noone even noticing, let alone death, what are you going to come up with
that is MORE destructive?


That that is is that that is. That that is not is that that is not.
That that is is not that that is not.  That that is not is not that that is.
And that includes these opinions, which are solely mine!
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