Re: Package Irradiation

["High Plains Drifter" <magna1@jps.net>]

Letters could be microwaved, but if the spore is dry it may not be killed.





"In science there is only physics; everything else is stamp collecting."

                                      --Ernest Rutherford



Dean Chaney, CHP, IBA (aka High Plains Drifter)

Fairfield, CA

magna1@jps.net

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

From: "Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@HOTMAIL.COM>

To: <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 2:15 PM

Subject: RE: Package Irradiation





> >To put risk in perspective, one person has died from anthrax.  Each DAY

in

> >the U.S., 113 die in auto accident, 45 due in falls, 23 die from poisons,

> >11 die from drowning, 10 die in fires,  8 die from ingestion of food or

> >other objects, 3 from firearms, and 2 from poison gases.

> ---

> And food poisoning - how many - as an average - die per day in the U.S.?

> BTW, anthrax seems to be a good panicker (is that a word?). Where did the

> terrorists get the spores from? Is microbiology (and organic chemistry,

and

> nuclear physics, and...) included in their training?

>

> Bjorn Cedervall   bcradsafers@hotmail.com

>

>

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