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in article <347@flatline.UUCP>, erict@flatline.UUCP (eric townsend) says:
> 2. If so, I thought there was a law or treaty or something that we're
>    involved with that prohibits the launching of radioactive material
>    into space; and that this treaty was the reason we don't put nuclear
>    reactors into space.

There is a treaty banning nuclear WEAPONS in space. But there is no treaty
banning nuclear REACTORS in space. Remember that Russian satellite that broke
up over Canada a few years back, spewing low-level radiation over a wide
swath? It was powered by a nuclear reactor....

Your friend the nut case might have been thinking about the SDI payload that
was recently sent up on a Delta(?) rocket... it was originally scheduled for
the shuttle, back when the shuttle was planned to fly, well, now.

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