“The mind boggles that scientists…could have chucked highly active waste into silos with no thought as to how to get it out.”
Chief nuclear safety inspector Laurence Williams on how radioactive waste imported for reprocessing is stored in the UK (The Guardian, London, 31 August)
“We are always talking about protecting kids on the internet from adults and bad people. We forget that we sometimes need to protect kids from kids.”
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Parry Aftab of WiredSafety.org on the rise in bullying in the form of offensive messages sent by email or posted on websites (The New York Times, 26 August)
“There are hazards that are more of a problem than the minor issues associated with foreign genes…Rats get into grain silos and get processed during milling.”
Food safety scientist Guill Le Roux of AgResearch in New Zealand on genetically modified food (New Zealand Herald, 31 August)
“People say a single drop of Ganges water can cleanse a lifetime of sins. But can that drop, befouled by industrial effluents, animal carcasses, raw sewage and human corpses, cleanse your body?”
Veer Bhadra Mishra, who has long campaigned for a clean-up of India’s holy river (Indo-Asian News Service, 27 August)
“I have always wondered whether the menstrual cycle had something to do with the crocodile’s behaviour.”
Garry Lindner, a ranger at Kakadu National Park in Australia, on why crocodiles seem to target women (The Australian, 31 August)
