Re: Nuclear power far from clean

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From: hatunen David Hatunen
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 00:00

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In article <608poi$g3e@larry.cc.emory.edu>,
Lloyd R. Parker <lparker@larry.cc.emory.edu> wrote:
>Wil Maxwell (wmaxwell@geocities.com) wrote:
>: 
>:      It would seem that you're too stupid to know that the "energy" you FEEL
>: raining down on you on a sunny day is a form of RADIOACTIVE waste!
>: 
>
>Ridiculous.  We get visible, infrared, and some uv from the sun.  Not the 
>alpha, beta, and gamma we get from nuclear waste on earth.

We don't get alpha and beta from teh sun because as helium nuclei and
electrons they don't go very far [1]; this is why these two forms of
radiation aren't dangerous from nuclear waste as long as you don't hug the
waste.

But we DO get gamma radiation from the sun.

[...]

[1] Unless we're counting the solar "wind", charged particles that do reach
the upper atmosphere of earth.

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From: hatunen@shell. (David Hatunen)
Subject: Re: Nuclear power far from clean
Date: 1997/09/23
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