From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!duke!bcw Newsgroups: net.space Title: Re: Soviet Nuclear Stupidity Article-I.D.: duke.2914 Posted: Mon Jan 17 19:09:06 1983 Received: Wed Jan 19 06:55:56 1983 References: inuxd.228 From: Bruce C. Wright @ Duke University Re: Soviet nuclear waste disaster There is copious documentation for this disaster; there have been articles in New Scientist especially about it, though I have seen articles in other publications (Science? Don't remember offhand). The only nit is that it really didn't get close to critical (or at least is not widely believed to have gotten close to critical), it's just that the heat of decomposition got so high that it disintegrated its dump site ... Bruce C. Wright @ Duke University