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Plutonium spontaneously combusting???

To: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
Subject: Plutonium spontaneously combusting???
From: Johannes Strydom <js165@prism.gatech.edu>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 19:44:01 -0500
Reply-To: fritz.strydom@nnrc.gatech.edu

> There are more immediate dangers. The element is so dangerous that
> plutonium shavings have been known to spontaneously burst into flame.

I have never heard of plutonium spontaneously combusting in air.  Is
this possible or is it just another one of the incredible misconceptions
about plutonium and radiation (I tend to believe this one).  Maybe they
mean spontaneous fission.

Fritz Strydom
Health Physicist
Georgia Tech

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