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Robert Heinlein may have written about waterbeds circa 1961, but he is supposed to have come up with the idea about 1939 during a long period in hospital.
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Most of it should be reprocessed. The article is somewhat disingenuous about why we do not - it was a Cold War measure, extended, under the SALT agreements. And yes, Plutonium is part of some waste - but newer reactor designs can use it, it is no longer just for bombs. And a "spent" fuel rod is about as radioactive as the original mined ore - it is when you concentrate a lot of them, as these sites are doing, that they interact, resulting in side effects like increasing the radiation, temperature, etc. Oh, and as pointed out in the recent scary story about a bottle of Plutonium from 1944 being found (inside a still-locked safe, by the way) most of the radiation from it is gamma - unable to penetrate a single sheet of the paper you use in your computer's printer, or a shirt/blouse, etc and thus most dangerous when inhaled or otherwise introduced into the body.

The French are ahead on this, and others are starting to take it seriously, while we are still in the "duck-and-cover" silliness of the early 1950s.
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I used to work with a guy who had an off-beat sense of humor: he claimed he had his wife in tears by telling her that the hides had to come from baby Nauga, no more than two days old, but the better ones were fetuses aborted a few days before birth.
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A 100 point lead may seem excessive, but as total game scoring (both teams) it is not impressive.

And invoking the "slaughter rule" is a function of the referees, not the coach. He might suggest it to the refs, but if he calls the game himself he loses, right?

Is something else in play here?
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