Re: RADSAFE digest 3264

["Tom Savin" <lexicon@hotbot.com>]

 Maybe the author got his stories mixed up, it is true however, that Pierre Curie was killed by a horse in 1906.  --

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000 10:34:32    ruth_weiner wrote:
>>"Radiation is perceptible to horses and they will not venture anywhere near
>>material that contains uranium ores."
>This is nonsense.  I checked with my daughter who runs a 28-stall horse
>barn, breeds horses, trains, buys and sells, has an undergraduate degree in
>equine management and has worked extensively as a veterinary assistant with
>large animals, as well as working two years on a race track.  She reminds me
>that:
>
>1.  Injured horses are routinely x-rayed.   In fact, horses bred for show
>and racing and breeding are routinely x-rayed as well.   They can no more
>sense the x-ray than we can.
>2.  Northern New Mexico and Arizona, and southwestern Colorado are uranium
>mining areas as well as ranching areas.  In many places in the west, where
>the underlying rock is granite, cattle can only be moved using horses (not
>with motorized vehicles).
>3.  Hanford and Savannah River Site are both located in "horse country."
>
>I could go on and on. There is absolutely no evidence for this statement and
>plenty of evidence to refute it.  My daughter says she wonders what else in
>the book "Owning a Horse" is wrong.
>
>Ruth Weiner
>ruth_weiner@msn.com
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Soderdahl, Sheryl <soderdahl@idns.state.il.us>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
>Date: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 8:10 AM
>Subject: RE: RADSAFE digest 3264
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>
>>OK, Radsafers, have any of you heard this one yet?
>>
>>"Radiation is perceptible to horses and they will not venture anywhere near
>>material that contains uranium ores."
>>
>>Owning a Horse, A Practical Guide by Diana Gregory
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