1. What the sanitation workers find on the curb the day after Christmas.
2. Waste produced by high-level government officials
3. Waste which due to its high level of toxicity has to be kept on high shelves out of reach of children.
4. Spent fuel and reprocessing waste.

1. Special Greek urn made out of materials extracted from a specific geologic region into which votes were cast.
2. In India, place of repose, located on a particular geological formation in the Himalayas where Brahmins like to meditate.
3. A geological repository is system which is intended to be used for, or may be used for, the disposal of radioactive wastes in excavated geologic media. (10 CFR 60)

1. What remains after cow dung fuel has been burnt.
2. Fuel one can spend instead of money for a new cashless society.
3. Fuel which has been withdrawn from a nuclear reactor after irradiation. (10 CFR 60)

1. Members of a Paris café philosophical discourse group who criticized the regime of Louis the XIV (and everyone else).
2. In analogy with a critical mass, a group of people which, with the right number and ideology, could produce an explosive upheaval in society.
3. The group of individuals reasonably expected to receive the greatest exposure to radioactivity from a disposal or decommissioning activity.

1. Groups of people who challenge the use of probability as being scientifically valid.
2. Groups of people whose ability to think critically is improbable.
3. A hypothetical population generated by "Monte Carlo simulations" that select randomly from well-defined population groups (such as farmers, defense workers, miners, and casino operators) and environmental contamination scenarios in order to assess average dose and risk in the hypothetical population.

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Comments to Outreach Coordinator, Pat Ortmeyer: ieer@ieer.org
Takoma Park, Maryland, USA

Revised March 21, 1996