Re: One pound of Plutonium

[Chris Hawkins <chawkins@inet.guthrie.org>]

>      Re "One pound of plutonium:"  We hear this all the time in New Mexico
>      too.  I am reminded that some years ago a student burst into my office
>      at the university and said, with evident concern, "Dr. Weiner, do you
>      know that we use toxic substances in the chemistry laboratory?"  I
>      assured her I did, and she wasn't supposed to drink the stuff!  How
>      many people would be killed by a gallon of gasoline, or of shampoo,
>      for that matter?

Whay about a pound of electrons, at, say 10 kV ?

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