Re: mushrooms and plutonium

[Schoenhofer <schoenho@via.at>]

At 22:09 03.09.97 -0500, you wrote:
>Pu is safer. It's quite unlikely that anyone would mistake it for anything
>other than a hazardous material, so that they would deliberately ingest it.
>
>chris alston
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Plutonium is definitely safer. Even if you ingest it deliberately the
uptake via the GIT will be very low and most of it will pass your body.  If
you inhale it, that is a different story. 

Franz Schoenhofer
Federal Institute for Food Control and Research
Department for Radiochemistry and Radioactivity of Food
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