Re: Gooey Gel May Help Clean Spills-Coming Soon to Theater Near You

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In a message dated 10/7/99 5:52:08 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
sandyfl@earthlink.net writes:

RE: "Gooey Gel May Help Clean Nuclear Spills"

<< The gel contains the bacterium Thiobacillus thiooxidans, which is 
 one of the causes of corrosion in concrete buildings and bridges.  
 
 ``It feeds on sulfur-containing compounds in the concrete and 
 converts them into dilute sulfuric acid, which eats away at any 
 concrete it meets,'' the magazine said.   >>
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I can just see how this press release touting gooey gell, will lead to a plot 
for the next anti-nuclear disaster movie: "The Chernobyl Sarcophagus 
Collapse" [or "The bacterium that ate Chernobyl"]

1) The bacterium Thiobacillus thiooxidans proliferates in the already cracked 
and crumbling Chernobyl concrete sarcophagus due to bacteria mutating from 
radiation fields there.

2) The sarcophagus fails catastrophically after the concrete further 
disintegrates leading to a massive release of radioactivity sealed there, and 
any number of dire hypothesized pathways for radioactivity thereby released 
to reach  "man" [and women] and the environment causing a disaster even worse 
than the giant ants in the 1950's nuclear sci-fi movie "Them"

Anyone know any "good"  agents to pitch the above script to Hollywood? 

S. Farber



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