Re: Radium in water supplies

[Franz Schoenhofer <schoenho@via.at>]

At 12:17 10.08.1998 -0500, you wrote:
>
>     I'm sure there will be some opinions on this recently found major 
>     hazard.  I certainly have mine.   
>     Eric Goldin   <goldinem@songs.sce.com>
>     
>     Unsafe Levels of Radium Taint Water
>     From Times Wire Reports
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Eric,

Without downplaying the radiation hazards of radium-226 (and Ra-228), which
are two of the most radiotoxic nuclides, outnumbering plutonium by far: I
miss any numbers in this message. What is "unsafe", what is the
distribution of the values etc. etc.? Does anybody know more?

Franz


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