Nuking a hurricane

[Zarathustra]

Very true.  There are plants where Russia had been enriching Plutonium for use in nuclear warheads.  Though it may come as no suprise, but there was an accident which caused the place to get shut down.  Superheated radioactive waste leaked out into the lake they were using to cool everything.  There's still enough radioactive waste to give you a lethal dose of radiation in 15 minutes.  They don't think that the area is going to be even remotely habitable for about 10,000 years.

Russia at one point in time had also re-routed a river using nukes.  It's been about 30-40 years, and the river is just beginning to get back to normal. 

I think that we all agree on the fact that radioactive isotopes are things that should not be played with. 

"Do not taunt Super Happy Fun Ball."

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Do you havea link on this? I'm interested because in my head, my concept of a cooling lake doesn't exactly provide for the possibility of the waste leaking into the water, since the two are separated quite a bit... or maybe I have to brush up a bit on my Nuclear Reactors for Dummies.