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Letter: Letters : Nuke fields

Published 16 August 1997

From F. G. Grisley

Barry, Glamorgan

Why not dispose of nuclear waste by converting it into liquid form and
pumping it into exhausted oilfields offshore? These have been leakproof for many
millions of years, otherwise the oil would never have accumulated in the first
place.

Issue no. 2095 published 16 August 1997

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