Re: Humor for some, not for the overly sensitive

["Gregg Claycamp" <hgc2+@pitt.edu>]

Before you assume that the TLVs reflect accurately the toxicity of
compounds, you should review the methods for deriving them.  The
correspondence between toxicity ranking and TLV ranking is not 1:1!

Gregg Claycamp, Ph.D., C.H.P.
University of Pittsburgh
<hgc2+@pitt.edu>


-----Original Message-----
From: Kim Merritt <Merritt9@llnl.gov>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Wednesday, December 16, 1998 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: Humor for some, not for the overly sensitive


>One of the prime rules of war is get it over as fast as possible.  If this
>means using uranium rounds to kill the other guys tanks in a week rather
>than slugging it out over the course of months or years, where is the fault
>with that.  As for the toxicity:  If you are close enough to be present
>when the uranium gets vaporized you probably won't care that it is toxic
>because you will be dead.  A quick look at the TLV for uranium gives it a
>TWA limit of 0.2 mg/m3.  However, looking at the TLV for lead (the most
>commonly used small arms material) we see a TWA limit 0.05 mg/m3.  So how
>does using uranium rounds make a battle field any more hazardous afterwards
>than using lead rounds.  Never mind the unexploded ordinance, mines, etc.
>
>
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