[ RadSafe ] Salsman's uranium trioxide gas proof

[garyi at trinityphysics.com]

Does anybody remember that scene from Monty Python where this knight won't let King 
Arthur cross the bridge without a fight?  So they fight and KA chops the guys limbs off one at 
a time, because he doesn't know when he's beat, until there's just a blood-spurting trunk with 
a mouth on top that keeps threatening to bite at KA's kneecaps.  At that point there's nothing 
left to do but leave the defunct knight behind and go on with your business. 

James, you are that defunct knight.  Your arguments on this DU topic have been chopped up 
exceedingly fine.  I don't think anybody is going to "make" you yield, but its obvious to all who 
have followed this thread with even half an ear that you don't have a leg to stand on.  I'm 
telling you this just in case you thought that your persistence would win over anybody on the 
list.  But in the general media, it is the other way around.  When a crusader tilts at windmills 
he is lauded as a hero, and if he's especially handsome, especially ugly, or attention grabbing 
in any way, then he might make it to TV.  They love a good story there and don't notice at all 
if you hunker down and ignore facts from time to time.  So I urge you to take your tale to a 
producer: lots of folks who couldn't even tell the same story twice have made good money 
that way.  Besides, you've put so much time and effort into it I hate to see you with nothing to 
show for your trouble.

Regards,
Gary Isenhower


On 1 Feb 2007 at 10:46, James Salsman wrote:

Date sent:      	Thu, 1 Feb 2007 10:46:42 -0800
From:           	"James Salsman" <jsalsman at gmail.com>
To:             	radsafelist <radsafe at radlab.nl>
Subject:        	Re: [ RadSafe ] Salsman's uranium trioxide gas proof

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Dear Dr. Raabe,

I read your 1978 Health Physics article on plutonium (cited in full
below) carefully and with great interest.

I note that you measured condensation in a very small enclosed space.
How would you compare the condensation rate of metal oxide vapors in
such a space with the rate in open air?

I was unable to find any mention that you had matched the mass of the
plutonium in the recovered combustion product with the mass consumed
by the combustion.  Did you or your colleagues make that comparison?

I note that you, like others from Jofu Mishima through Maryanne
Parkhurst, have used mass impactors to collect particulate combustion
product.  Isn't it true that mass impactors force excess condensation,
and allow gases to escape collection?

Would your apparatus have been able to detect any plutonium oxide gas?
 How?

Sincerely,
James Salsman