Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utcsstat.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!utcsstat!laura From: laura@utcsstat.UUCP (Laura Creighton) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Strange Belief Systems Message-ID: <1086@utcsstat.UUCP> Date: Sun, 18-Sep-83 02:11:57 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsstat.1086 Posted: Sun Sep 18 02:11:57 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Sep-83 05:51:42 EDT References: <1829@allegra.UUCP> Organization: U. of Toronto, Canada Lines: 16 Oh, I forgot. these are not nuclear wastes, as in from reactors. these are nuclear wastes, as in "Russia just wants so much enriched uranium, and we produced lots more -- this will look bad, so dump it back into the mine, where there is gravel that is later used to make the bricks that go into the housing materials." At least that was the theory last summer about why the new housing was radioactive. it is interesting that the Phd sociology student in Poland (Polish) who discovered this in her study of how inefficiencies get glossed over in Poland, was told that she was no longer suitable as a Phd candidate and had all of her work confiscated. By that time, through my friend, a Canadian vistor to the country, it had already made its way back to the Western World, which is the only reason we are hearing about it these days, i presume. laura creighton utzoo!utcsstat!laura