Re: fancy new euphemisms

[Alan Muller <amuller@dca.net>]

At 01:09 AM 10/24/99 -0400, Neil Tangri wrote:
>Hi folks,
>
>I've just run across a yet another euphemism for incineration or one of its 
>high-tech spawn:
>"Super critical water oxidation" -- apparently this is a technology being 
>developed by a Prof. Jefferson at MIT and somebody at Kentucky U. It's 
>basically incineration in a very high pressure environment with high oxygen 
>levels. I am told that it is being developed to treat nuclear waste. It's 
>not supposed to be ready for several years yet, though. 
>
>Neil

Processes by this name are nothing new.  Unless I'm confused, I think this is an aqueous process and it seems a big stretch to call it incineration.

am

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