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

["Raymond Shadis" <shadis@ime.net>]

Chestnuts,

    Well then, you're right. I couldn't understand your earlier "risk from

burning yak dung" comparison, but your "chestnuts" analogy does the trick:

there is no difference in risk (or presumably the mechanics of injury) from

ionizing radiation and non-ionizing radiation.



Right? Just as there is no difference between ping-pong balls and bullets. I

mean, basically, they are both projectiles. Armor piercing .50's, Black

Talons, and ICBMs are just variations on a theme. Why couldn't I see that

before?



Oh well, Thanks for all your help in getting me clear on radiant heat equals

gamma rays thing. Have you submitted a paper for peer review yet?  Or is

this just another, " well-known fact"?



BTW,

Have you seen the new microwave hairdryers? I understand they were field

tested at the last HP convention.

That would've been the one on hormesis and UFOs.      Thanks again, Ray



----- Original Message -----

From: Ted Rockwell <tedrock@CPCUG.ORG>

To: Raymond Shadis <shadis@ime.net>; Bernard L Cohen <blc+@PITT.EDU>; Wilson

Robert H PSNS <wilsonr@PSNS.NAVY.MIL>

Cc: maury <maury@WEBTEXAS.COM>; <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 5:40 PM

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





> > [radiation]can kill

> you from inside of a non-energized, hermetically sealed jar.

>

> How is that different from, say, a charcoal fire over which a vendor

roasts

> chestnuts?  The fire is dangerous, so you keep it in a container and

shield

> bystanders from (most of) the heat.

>

> I don't think anyone worries about the direct radiation from unshielded

> radwaste.  It's easy to provide reliable shielding.  The only argument

I've

> heard concerns the possibility of particles leaking out and becoming

> ingested.  And that problem, it seems to me, is identical to that posed by

> any chemical toxicant.  Except that the radioactive material slowly but

> inevitably decreases its toxicity all by itself, whereas most chemicals

> don't.

>

> Ted Rockwell

>

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