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Timberwoof wrote:
> 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;

Pigs and singing spring to mind...


> 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?

Depends,is it an alpha,beta or gamma reducer?


> 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.

Addinall meant, what Addinall said.  If you go hunting for hot
dry rocks, which have a Uranium/Thorium content 10-50
times over the norm, break them up, and wash hot water
over them you are going to pick up some metallic oxides in the
wash.  Nothing you, the gay elves, or the Dragons can do about
the fact.

Mark Addinall.



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