[ RadSafe ] Absurd? Oh, the irony!

[Bernard Cohen]

Otto G. Raabe wrote:

> Of course, there are also going to be large quantities of contaminated 
> waste materials produced by neutron activation of reactor components 
> and other materials in and around a fusion reactor. So fusion reactors 
> may produce large quantities of radioactive waste.

       ---In all that has been written in publications for the public 
about the dangers of radioactive waste, I have never seen any reference 
to the quantity of radioactivity involved. As a public issue, quantities 
are apparently irrelevant. So I don't see the difference between fusion 
and fission radioactive wastes as a public issue. This is a strange 
world we are dealing with!