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Re: Deadly Plutonium ?

     If I calculated correctly, 1/200 ounce of ingested, insoluble 
     Pu-239 would give a committed effective dose equivalent of around 
     2000 rem (remember, that's over a fifty year period)...certainly 
     not "immediately lethal"...
     
     Vincent King
     vincent.king@doegjpo.com


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Subject: Deadly Plutonium ?
Author:  "Gerald Schlenker" <glschl1@pop.uky.edu> at Internet
Date:    2/7/00 8:38 AM


Is 2/100th of a ounce of injested plutonium immediatly leathal?

Gerald Schlenker
GLSCHL1@pop.uky.edu

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