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Article #213Re: Plutonium is 100% safe !
From: Bob Goatse
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 00:02
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 00:02
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On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 02:53:03 +0000, Gregory L. Hansen wrote: > In article <LEjJc.44549$yd5.7244@twister.nyroc.rr.com>, > daestrom <daestrom@NO_SPAM_HEREtwcny.rr.com> wrote: >> >>"Harlan Osier" <maya_egg@hotmail.com> wrote in message >>news:89ec59b9.0407121648.7b99eb5e@posting.google.com... >>> You can eat it and nothing will happen ! >> >>Sure, encase it in stainless steel and it passes through the GI track about >>as fast as your last meal. And the steel shields any alpha. But lodge a >>'raw' chunk of it in your lung where it will irradiate lung tissue for years >>and you're likely to develop a cancer. Inject it into your blood stream (or >>through an open wound) and it may find its way to some bone marrow (another >>cancer). > > As I recall, according to the BEIR-IV, plutonium workers had been tracked > for more than 50 years, and the risk above background is apparantly low > enough that there's no epidemiological data that can determine it. So the > risk due to plutonium remains theoretical, based on extrapolation of > animal studies and other types of exposures in humans. As an actinide, I'd think it's probably fairly *chemically* poisonous, regardless of its radiological properties...
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