Aucbvax.1868
fa.energy
utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!OAF@MIT-MC
Tue Jun 23 04:47:18 1981
energy digest
       Questions about Helen Caldicott's nuclear energy article,
       Iraqi reactor's intended uses
       TMI clipping servic - part 8
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: 19 Jun 1981 1440-PDT
From: ICL.REDFORD at SU-SCORE
Subject: re: nuclear energy article
To: energy at MIT-MC
cc: ICL.REDFORD at SU-SCORE

I've heard before the claim that one microgram of plutonium in
your lungs will give you lung cancer and wondered about it.
They seem to assume that the one particle is going to stay in
the lungs for 20 years, but surely the lungs have some power to clean
themselves.  My glasses get dusty after just a few hours, so the
lungs must collect tremendous amounts of the stuff.  They must
dispose of it somehow or they would be clogged in short order.
  Also, what does Helen Caldicott mean when she says that driving
past a hot fuel rod at ninety miles an hour would kill you?  Would it
kill you immediately, in a couple of days, or in thirty years? After all
it's very likely that you will die within a hundred years after crossing
the street, but that doesn't mean much.  I've seen a lot of this sort
of sloppiness in reporting in science articles.
-------

------------------------------


RWG@MIT-MC 06/19/81 19:12:56
To: ENERGY at MIT-MC
The following is repeated (without permission) from the July 81
Access to Energy.

> > >      STOP PRESS
<HR>
This Usenet Oldnews Archive
article may be copied and distributed freely, provided:
<P>
1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles.
<BR>
2. The following notice remains appended to each copy:
<P>
<EM>The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright&copy 1981, 1996
<BR> Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.</EM>
<P>
<HR>
Goto <A HREF="81.06.23_ucbvax.1871_fa.energy.html">NEXT</A> article in FA.energy Newsgroup
<BR>Return to <A HREF="FA.energy-index.html">FA.energy index</A>
<BR>Return to the
       <A HREF="../index.html">Usenet Oldnews Archive index</A>
</HTML>

-----------------------------------------------------------------
gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen <[email protected]>
of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/


This Usenet Oldnews Archive
article may be copied and distributed freely, provided:

1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles.

2. The following notice remains appended to each copy:

The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996
Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.