Nuclear Accidents and boiling water

Bill Tanenbaum

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Jul 3, 1986, 11:54:54 PM7/3/86

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> In article <8...@bu-cs.UUCP> b...@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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Craig Janzen

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Jul 7, 1986, 3:56:01 PM7/7/86

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>> >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.)

>> 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).

>Actually, it's not totally preposterous. If a radioactive gas was

>dissolved in the water, boiling the water would cause it to bubble
>off.

And then the water could be distilled leaving behind all the solid
radioactive waste.

Timothy Lee

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Jul 10, 1986, 4:18:05 PM7/10/86

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Meanwhile, one is breathing all of that bubbled off radioactive gas...

hof...@hdsvx1.uucp

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Jul 16, 1986, 6:04:03 PM7/16/86

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Concerning the boiling of water to remove radioactivity,

Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL writes:
> Actually, it's not totally preposterous. If a radioactive gas was
> dissolved in the water, boiling the water would cause it to bubble
> off.

Where? Into my kitchen?!

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Frank Adams

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Jul 21, 1986, 6:18:51 PM7/21/86

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In article <2...@hdsvx1.UUCP> hof...@hdsvx1.UUCP writes:
>Concerning the boiling of water to remove radioactivity,
>Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL writes:
>> Actually, it's not totally preposterous. If a radioactive gas was
>> dissolved in the water, boiling the water would cause it to bubble
>> off.
>
>Where? Into my kitchen?!

Better in the air, where you breathe some of it, than in the water, where
you drink all of it.

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