Re: So, is reprocessing in America's future?

["Franz Schoenhofer" <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>]

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Von: Ted Rockwell <tedrock@CPCUG.ORG>

An: NECNP <necnp@necnp.org>; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

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Datum: Dienstag, 03. Juli 2001 23:31

Betreff: RE: So, is reprocessing in America's future?





>> It really

>doesn't need to be a bomb (to contaminate a public bldg).

>

>And it doesn't need to be Pu or even radioactivity.  It could be any of

>scores of neurotoxins, botulisms, or many other bad actors.

>

>Why do we keep telling people that nuclear things pose unprecedented

>hazards?  They don't!  A small truckload of fertilizer will do it.







Yes, some postings were in my opinion expressing that distribution of

plutonium (in what chemical form??????) would have disastrous effects. Yes,

if you give each visitor of the New York Stock Exchange an injection of some

mCi intravenously, it would have. I am preaching since years also on RADSAFE

(in vain??), that radium 226, Ra-228, Po-210 and Pb-210 are by far more

radiotoxic than plutonium. Do you think that anybody would be shocked, if

somebody would spray naturally occurring mineral water containing elevated

radium concentrations in public places?



Please, no neurotoxins, aflatoxins, botulin, bacteria or virus - they would

be really disastrous!



Franz







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