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To: David R who wrote (240928)	3/22/2002 2:19:09 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The high level waste has radiation levels above the natural materials it's made of for a few hundred years. But sealed and behind a few feet of concrete pose no danger. Now I consider .0000000000000000001 grams per gigawatt to be zero. If you don't, fine be picky. As to half life. Certain materials in spent nuclear fuels have very long half lives. They are not very radioactive or one could say they contribute little to the total radiation being generated by the full. Understanding what's going on is complex sum of many elements. But the spent fuel is very dense material and absorb the radiation and convert it mostly to heat. So after a few hundred years the total radioactivity is less than the radioactivity of the original materials. uic.com.au You statement on recycling make no sense based upon nuclear physics and chemistry. tom watson tosiwmee