Twenty things to do with nuclear waste

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Twenty things to do with nuclear waste

1 Put it in your garden and turn your worms into glow worms.

2 Sell it to a third world country and destroy the ‘paper work’ that say who created it.

3 Put it in 44 gallon drums and store it underground and hope the hell that the drums don't rust.

4 Spread it over the aboriginals sacred land.

5 Put it on a train and start carting it round the country until you find a country town that is not politically active or important.

6 Put it on a ship and ship it from one country to the next.

7 Put it in a dirty bomb and keep it for a rainy day.

8 Keep making the stuff and convince the people that a scientific solution is near at hand.

9 Give it to the next arriving aliens and tell them to take it home with them.

10 Put it on stamps and run a vigorous advertising campaign saying that “nuclear waste taste great.”

11 Dig a dirty big hole and throw it all in and keep your mouth shut for the next twenty thousand years about its location.

12 Store it in the heart of the city; they’ll never think of finding it there.

13 Don’t do anything; just leave it where it was made.

14 Concentrate it; one drum doesn’t look any where near as bad as forty.

15 Run a reeducate program in the schools, expelling the virtues of the nuclear industry and the necessary evil of nuclear waste. So that in twenty years time, you won’t have to do any thing.

16 Put it on a ship and conveniently have the ship sink, they’ll complain for a little while but at least it’ll be all over real quickly. After all, an accident is an accident!

17 Get some scientist to say that it’s ‘really not that bad.’

18 Divide it up and store it all over the country, they can’t complain about little bits here and there, can they!?

19 Do nothing and pay some greeny to say it doesn’t exist.

20 Use it as paint and change the color of parliament house to yellow.