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  Radioactive money has obvious advantages.
  A healthy economy depends on money circulating fast.	Make it radioactive and
it would certainly circulate.
  Verifying the authenticity of money would become easy.  Geiger counters, like
pocket calculators before them, would become both tiny and cheap due to mass
production.  You would hear their rapid clicking at every ticket window.  A
particle accelerator is too expensive for a counterfeiter; counterfeiting would
become a lost art.
  The economy would be boosted in a number of ways.  Lead would become extremely
valuable.  Even the collection plates in a church would have to be made of lead
(or gold).  Bank vaults would have to be lead lined, and the coins separated by
dampers.  Styles of clothing would be affected.  Every purse, and one pocket in
every pair of pants, would need to be shielded in lead.  Even so, the concept of
"money burning a hole in your pocket" would take on new meaning.
  The profession of tax collecting would carry its own, well, deserved penalty.
So would certain other professions.  An Arab oil sheik might still grow
obscenely rich, but at least we could count on his spending it as fast as it
comes in, lest it go up in a fireball.	A crooked politician would have to take
bribes by credit card, making it easier to convict him.  A bank robber would be
conspicuous, staggering up to the teller's window in his heavy, lead-shielded
clothing.  The successful pickpocket would also stand out in a crowd.  A thick
lead-lined clove would be a dead giveaway; but without it, he could be
identified by his sickly, faintly glowing hands.  Society might even have to
revive an ancient practice, amputating the felon's hand as a therapeutic
measure, before it kills him.
  Foreign aid could be delievered by ICBM.

Rage wrote:

one of my favorite experts in configuration management.

Andy_L_J wrote:

'This space for rent'

Tom Lawton wrote:

you don't get to go 'disrupt' the girls on the production line anymore