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In article <pISdnQ8n7-mTrwTYnZ2dnUVZ_oSnnZ2d@comcast.com>,
 Jim Lillie <jimlillie@comcast.net> wrote:

> Timberwoof wrote:
> > In article <1167544085.362178.229360@42g2000cwt.googlegroups.com>,
> >  "Addinall" <addinall@addinall.org> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Of course if you pump a load of water down a hole that
> >>is being heated by a load of radioactive rock, some of that
> >>radioactive material will be dissolved or kept in supension
> >>in the water, and it's going to come up to the surface.
> > 
> > 
> > Oh. I did not know that lava coming out of volcanoes is radioactive. I'm 
> > sure that very few people know this. I think that even geologists don't 
> > know this.
> > 
> They know.
> The coal pile at a power plant may exceed the perimiter level allowed 
> for a nuclear plant.
> The Congressional hearings after 3 Mile Island had a higher background 
> level in the *granite* walled hearing chamber - than the peak exposure
> downwind from the 'incident'.
> 
> Radioactive is not yes/no binary beyond the individual atom level.
> What is the proportion of your sample, of what isotopes.
> 
> Remember - sunburn is radiation damage from a fusion reactor.
> TURN OFF THE SUN.
> 
> Oooops?  What other problems?
> 
> Jim Lillie

You seem to be trying to educate me in radioactivity; trust me; I know 
some basic things about it. (One if my favorite quizzes is this: Here's 
a 1kg lump of material with a half-life of five hours and there's a lump 
of material with a half-life of five million years. Given the choice, 
which one would you sit next to? Please see also my POM-nominated post 
on the effects of changed nuclear decay times over in talk.origins.) 

Never mind that everything is radioactive in the really long term; 
consider what Addinall meant.

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