[extropy-chat] Nuclear batteries for hand-helds

[Emlyn]

A good start would be to call them anything but Nuclear Batteries.
Maybe Neutron emission batteries? Hmm... After all, smoke detectors
aren't called Nuclear Smoke Detectors. Imagine the outcry if they were
called that!

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Emlyn

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On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:40:58 -0700 (PDT), Adrian Tymes
<wingcat at pacbell.net> wrote:
> I say again:
> 
> But try selling that to the luddite public who would
> want to ban this.
> 
> --- Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > For the same reason that terrorists don't try to do
> 
> 
> > the same thing with
> > smoke detectors or tritium exit signs, both products
> > which are widely
> > used and are found in most people's homes and
> > workplaces....
> >
> > --- Adrian Tymes <wingcat at pacbell.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Ah, but even if these are easily shielded, how to
> > > prevent people from cracking open the batteries,
> > > removing the radioactive bits, and concentrating
> > them
> > > into the warhead of a dirty nuclear bomb?
> > >
> > > The members of this list know how ridiculous the
> > > chances of that are, and how minimal the threat
> > would
> > > be.  But try selling that to the luddite public
> > who
> > > would want to ban this.
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