[ RadSafe ] Pu-239 famous chemical toxitity

[Emil]

The lack of publications on this subject is explainable, due to the
word of plutonium in it. 

It is still wonders me, why would chemical ALI being more restrictive
than the radiological one, if chemically via creation of toxin it
would NOT do damage to the chromosomes. Or it does and they just did
NOT ACCOUNT for it. (open) 
 
May be it does?

Pu-239 is not the most dangerous of toxins as the botulism and the
botox has very low concentration of botulism in it and a lot of
ladies  and guys were doing facial botox for years and they are
getting prettier and prettier every day ;-)


Just some thoughts on the way out this door.


Emil.


John Andrews wrote:
> Stan Hammond, my late Industrial Hygienist friend from the
> plutonium 
> world many years ago told me that Pu in wounds, particularly in
> hands of 
> contaminated workers workers, would leave little nodules of calus
> like 
> dead cells killed by the intense alpha activity of the contaminated
> 
> spot.  These were probably tiny metalic particles embedded in the
> skin.  
> They stayed in place and did not migrate further.  I do not know if
> this 
> data had been published.  I never saw in in anything I read at the
> time.
> 
> John Andrews, Knoxville, Tennessee
> 
>


> Emil wrote:
> 
> >John,
> >
> >Same as you, I could not see much new in the article.
> >But may be it is just you and me, me who was just sucking up the
> PAPR
> >rubber for the last three years, trying to keep thousands of DAC's
> of
> >Pu-239 out of workers lungs and get aggravated by being too
> strict.
> >
> >I looked up in Radsafe archive, could not find much about
> mechanism
> >of Pu chemical toxicity.
> >  
> >
> >snip
> >  
> >
> 




	
		
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