Re: Niagara, Hg, and global warming regulation vs nuclear energy?

["Howard Long" <hflong@pacbell.net>]

Nuclear reactor production of electricity should largely replace fossil fuel

burning for energy, when science is given precedence to politics, I agree.



However, at Doctors for Disaster Preparedness meetings (next in San Diego

June 25,26), those who promote limitation of CO2 to promote nuclear energy,

are exposed for inconsistency. See www.oism.org/DDP The global warming myth,

promoted by Music Men featuring nuclear winter 20 years ago, ("You need my

uniforms because there's trouble in River City"), has been scientifically

demolished as being much less threat than, say, a meteorite collision.



Howard Long



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From: "John R Johnson" <idias@interchange.ubc.ca>

To: "John Jacobus" <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>; <NiagaraNet@AOL.COM>;

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Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 4:26 PM

Subject: RE: Niagara Transuranics and Hg mistake





> John and other Radsafers

>

> Isn't global warming (rising sea levels, etc) a more important reason to

> stop burning fossil fuels?

>

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

> From: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

> [mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]On Behalf Of John Jacobus

> Sent: April 7, 2004 11:25 AM

> To: NiagaraNet@AOL.COM; radsafe-digest@list.vanderbilt.edu

> Cc: NiagaraNet@AOL.COM

> Subject: Re: Niagara Transuranics and Hg mistake

>

>

> Not to be a nucance, but I would still like to know if

> mercury for coal burning contributes to mercury

> contamination in the ocean/food chain.  If so, we need

> to stop burning coal and increase our use of nuclear

> power.

>

> --- NiagaraNet@AOL.COM wrote:

> > RADSAFERS:

> >

> > I am concerned with the mistaken statement about the

> > conversion of mercury in

> > biota. This is not a small one, nor easily

> > overlooked.

> >

> > Would anyone like to assist with my transuranics

> > issues in the general

> > Niagara Falls Niagara County area and the poor

> > disposal practices of yore?

> >

> > Thanks to Jim Dukelow of PNNL for the heads up and

> > clarification on this.

> > .

> > Regards,

> > Louis Ricciuti

> > Niagara County - "Los Alamos East"

> > _____________

> >

> > Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 12:35:49 -0400

> > From: RuthWeiner@AOL.COM

> > Subject: Re: Mercury scam?

> >

> > >Did you calculate the amount of mercury deposited

> > in

> > >the ocean from the burning of coal and other

> > >industrial processes?  What form is the mercury

> > >entering the oceans?  As an organic form that can

> > be

> > >absorbed by biota?

> > >

> > 3.  Metallic mercury apparently can be methylated by

> > marine organisms to form

> > dimethyl mercury.

> >

> > Ruth F. Weiner

> > ruthweiner@aol.com

> > 505-856-5011

> > (o)505-284-8406

> > _______________

> >

> > Ruth,

> >

> > I think marine organisms methylate mercury to methyl

> > mercury.  Dimethyl

> > mercury is extraordinarily toxic.  In August 1996

> > the Dartmouth chemist Karen

> > Wetterhahn spilled a couple of drops of dimethyl

> > mercury on her latex gloves.  In

> > January 1997 she was hospitalized with symptoms of

> > mercury poisoning.  She died

> > a couple of months later.  She had been following

> > accepted guidelines for

> > handling dimethyl mercury.  The incident led to a

> > revision of safety rules here

> > at the laboratory.  Methyl mercury is quite toxic,

> > but not in the same ballpark

> > as dimethyl mercury.

> >

> > Best regards.

> > Jim Dukelow

> > Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

> > Richland, WA

> > jim.dukelow@pnl.gov

> >

> > *Was LATEX the recommended handling procedure?

> > My sincerest sympathies to Karen Wetterhahn's

> > family. How sad.

> >

>

>

> =====

> +++++++++++++++++++

> ""A fanatic is one who cannot change his mind and won't change the

subject."

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>

> -- John

> John Jacobus, MS

> Certified Health Physicist

> e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com

>



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