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Article #16Re: Avoiding radioactive household products
From: Darci L. Chapman x5930
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 19:52
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 19:52
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(Michael A. Covington) writes: > >| Comparable sources can be found in smoke > >| detectors, lantern mantels and even salt substitute. > snoopy@sopwith.uucp (Snoopy) asks: > >Speaking of which, where can one get smoke detectors that are > >nuke-free these days? I can't find them anywhere... :-( > >cbettis@unlinfo.unl.edu (clifford bettis) responds with: > For that matter, how about nuke-free bananas? > (Bananas contain potassium, and potassium is one of many elements which, > in the naturally occurring mixture of isotopes, are slightly radioactive. > People have never lived in a radiation-free environment.) So that's why it's okay to add more radiation into our environment?? Because we were never radiation free to begin with? Wow, the logic is stunning. Darci L. Chapman
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Newsgroups: pdx.consumer,misc.consumers,sci.environment,sci.med Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!psgrain!qiclab!gasco!dlc From: dlc@gasco.uucp (Darci L. Chapman x5930) Subject: Re: Avoiding radioactive household products Message-ID: <1992Aug26.195222.12179@gasco.com> Sender: usenet@gasco.com (USENET poster ID) Nntp-Posting-Host: antares Organization: Northwest Natural Gas, Portland, OR References: <1992Aug24.164324.19218@SSD.intel.com> <1992Aug24.185340.19127@unlinfo.unl.edu> <1992Aug25.235542.17607@sopwith.uucp> <1992Aug26.025131.479@athena.cs.uga.edu> Distribution: na Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 19:52:22 GMT Lines: 18