Re: Re :LNT and educating the public[Scanned]

[Muckerheide <muckerheide@attbi.com>]

Since anyone with more than a single brain cell knows U is radioactive, this

isn't even a "religious belief" but would be "infinite intentional ignorance

of idiots" if true. Like anti-nuke/pro-LNT people.



Of course, the whole world has "widespread alpha contamination." Only the

dose is relevant.



Regards, Jim





on 11/1/02 6:32 AM, William V Lipton at liptonw@DTEENERGY.COM wrote:



> It was definitely a religious belief at the DOE facility where I worked

> that natural or depleted uranium is not radioactive.  It thus didn't

> require any radiological controls, so I was being my usual obstructive

> self when I became concerned about the widespread alpha contamination.

> 

> The opinions expressed are strictly mine.

> It's not about dose, it's about trust.

> Curies forever.

> 

> Bill Lipton

> liptonw@dteenergy.com

> 

> Christoph Hofmeyr wrote:

> 

>>  Ruth,"Very radioactive" is of course not a quantified statement, but

>> depleted uranium has about half the activity of the natural isotopic

>> composition (almost 20 000 Bq/g).  The short-lived daughters will grow

>> in in a few months.  Compare this with the exemption levels of between

>> 1 Bq/g (natural) and 10 Bq/g (U isotpes), and I think the lady still

>> might have a point.  I find  that even technical people tend to refer

>> to "only" depleted uranium as if it is not radioactive.  Incorrect.

>> Maybe it relates to the psychological relief that criticality is not

>> an issue.Chris Hofmeyrchofmeyr@nnr.co.za

>> 

>>      -----Original Message-----

>>      From: RuthWeiner@AOL.COM [mailto:RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]

>>      Sent: 31 October 2002 07:22

>>      To: jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

>>      Subject: Re: Re :LNT and educating the public[Scanned]

>> 

>>      Maybe the psychologically informed on RADSAFE can help with

>>      the following:

>> 

>>      I was on a panel at a local school early this week.  One of

>>      the women on the panel, a self-identified "peace activist"

>>      whom I had met on other occasions,  made some statements

>>      about depleted uranium that were simply wrong (e.g., that it

>>      was very radioactive).  The panel was not the appropriate

>>      venue to correct her or argue, so afterwards I said to her

>>      that I thought she had got some misinformation about DU.

>>      She cut me off virtually in mid-sentence and almost ran out

>>      the door.  She clearly didn't want to discuss the issue at

>>      all.etc.....

>>      I would be interested in others' opinions.

>> 

>>      Ruth

>> 

>>      Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.

>>      ruthweiner@aol.com

>> 

> 



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