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From: tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum)
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Subject: Re: Nuclear Accidents and boiling water
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Date: Thu, 3-Jul-86 23:54:54 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  3 23:54:54 1986
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> In article <806@bu-cs.UUCP> bzs@bu-cs.UUCP writes:
> >Re: boiling removes radioactivity from water??
> >I think the idea of boiling water to remove radioactive contaminants
> >is preposterous (I'm curious as to the authenticity of the original
> >suggestion.)
> >The whole suggestion is absurd (it wasn't Kenneth's suggestion.)
> >	-Barry Shein, Boston University
> I was the original poster of this article.  I posted it to net.jokes as
> well so that everybody could have a good laugh at how stupid the British
> Embassy in Moscow was.  It was their suggestion.  Their reasoning was 
> that radioactivity was like something like cholera germs, and could be 
> killed off by boiling.  (Yes it's true).
> Paul Anderson.  The Bicycle Repairman.  (Vive la velorution!)
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Actually, it's not totally preposterous.  If a radioactive gas was
dissolved in the water, boiling the water would cause it to bubble
off.

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Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan