Re: Plutonium is 100% safe !

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From: daestrom
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 23:50

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"Harlan Osier" <maya_egg@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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).

Some drug-runners 'eat' many times the fatal dose of heroin before boarding
a flight trying to smuggle it into some country.  Often they pass the
drug-filled condoms harmlessly.  But I wouldn't say that it is '100% safe'.
Neither is plutonium.

daestrom

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