WRONG USE OF RADIATION SYMBOL IN WALL STREET JOURNAL

["Stuart.Altman" <Stuart.Altman@dp.doe.gov>]

   On May 15, 1996, the prestigious Wall Street Journal ran a story, "YOU 
   CAN BUY YOURSELF AN ELECTRIC CAR, BUT IT ISN'T GOING TO TAKE YOU VERY 
   FAR" by Amal Kumar Naj.  It also contained a table, "Battle of the 
   Batteries", where is showed the various different technologies being 
   developed for new batteries, along with their associated rechargeable 
   time, environmental concerns and cost.
   
   Under the "environmental concerns" there is a picture of a skull and 
   cross bones for toxic, a picture of a sun behind some hills for 
   nontoxic, and guess what symbol they use for hazardous, yep, the trifold 
   radiation symbol (albeit flipped over).
   
   I would give the Wall Street Journal some poetic license, but when I see 
   that the table with those symbols came from the Argonne National 
   Laboratory, part of the Department of Energy complex, it makes me really 
   think and wonder.
   
   "MY OPINIONS DO NOT REPRESENT THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AND LIKEWISE"
   
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