Radioactive Rivers

[Monte Davis]

Yes, curiouser and curiouser... I had wondered about a possible
Wiener/Wigner confusion too, but surely *nobody* would make such a basic
error in the course of exposing the mass murderers among us... right?

I have no idea what the link between "V"'s SHROUD/SHOCK and "Dr. Norbert's
lab" might be. Far as I know, Wiener in the 50s mostly wandered into other
people's labs at MIT and tried to interest them in his latest enthusiasm.

I can't see the fusion-power angle at *all*. 1953-57 is still in the Lyman
Spitzer, stellarator-on-paper era. And whether the goal was fusion power or
thermonuclear bombs, wasn't tritium production already at Savannah River?
Wouldn't you tend to look there rather than at plutonium production at
Hanford?

But hey -- details, details: "Zinc-65, Arsenic-76, Phosphorous-32,
Sodium-24, and
Neptunium-239) including Iodine-131, Ruthenium-103 and 106, Strontium-90,
Plutonium-239, and Cerium-144. (Only some kinda math whiz would come up
with and keep straight all these damn numbers!)"

-Monte <must be a code designed to confuse the Avenging Angel>