Re: More Greepeace intervention

["Frank "Free Spirit" Borger" <frank@rover.bsd.uchicago.edu>]

> From:          "Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@ix.netcom.com>
> To:            Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
> Subject:       More Greepeace intervention

>  SANTIAGO, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- The environmental group Greenpeace said 
> Monday it was organizing protests at Chilean and Argentine ports
> against a possible shipment of plutonium around Cape Horn. 

>  Greenpeace also referred to the recent accident involving a Mars- 
> bound Russian space probe that crashed somewhere in the Pacific region
> last month. 
>  The Russian Embassy in Bolivia said last week that there was a chance
> radioactive debris from the craft hit the ground in a sparsely
> inhabited area of Bolivia, near the Chilean border. 
>  The 6.8-ton ship was carrying four coin-sized generators containing 
> about 7 ounces (200 g) of plutonium. 
>  Greenpeace said the incident was an example of the need for more 
> stringent international policies on nuclear safety. 

	Considering the recent study by ORNL showing how much
	Uranium and Thorium are released to the environment by
	coal burning, maybe we should send a copy of the report
	to Greenpeace.  I can see  a bunch of protesters now, trying
	to stop a unit train loaded with coal from making a delivery
	to a coal-fired power plant. ;-)

Frank R. Borger - Physicist - Center for Radiation Therapy
net: Frank@rover.uchicago.edu   ph: 312-791-8075 fa: 791-3697

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