Re: Accident with Am-241 smoke detectors

["D. Kosloff" <dkosloff@ncweb.com>]

Ralph Nader had a brief crusade against these about 16 years ago as reported
in the HP Newsletter.  Against smoke detectors, for child-killing airbags.

Don Kosloff mailto:dkosloff@ncweb.com
2910 Main St., Perry OH 44081

----- Original Message -----
From: Otto G. Raabe <ograabe@ucdavis.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: Accident with Am-241 smoke detectors


> February 17, 2000
> Davis, CA
>
> The person who opposes the use of Am-241 in smoke detectors probably
> imagines that the Am-241 is escaping into the air in his house and
> poisoning his family.
>
> The Am-241 sources in smoke detectors are so well sealed in a metallic
gold
> covered disk that even when one was accidently swallowed by an assembly
> worker (I believe reported in the HPS Journal or Newsletter), it passed
> through the GI tract with no measurable release of Am-241 into the body.
> These are superbly sealed and safe sources as currently manufactured.
There
> is no scientific basis for the reported concerns.
>
> Otto
>
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