Re: U & Pu "poisoning of the environment"

> >One doesnot need to detonate the Uranium/Plutonium one can poison the
> >watersuplies and make havoc with The Simple Bear Necessities of life.
> 
> Well, I wouldn't want to snort the stuff daily, but its toxicity
> has been overrated in the popular press.
> 
> Epidemiologic studies of workers [even wartime workers with impressive
> body burdens/ exposures] in a number of uranium bomb-making centers have 
> found ~ no health effects.

This is quite similar to saying that nerve gas is harmless because
scarcely anyone working in storage areas has been killed by it.  Or
that bullets won't harm you because people handle crates of them and
they don't get shot.

--
Jim Dixon

> > Epidemiologic studies of workers [even wartime workers with impressive
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> > body burdens/ exposures] in a number of uranium bomb-making centers have 
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> > found ~ no health effects.
> 
> This is quite similar to saying that nerve gas is harmless because
> scarcely anyone working in storage areas has been killed by it.  Or
> that bullets won't harm you because people handle crates of them and
> they don't get shot.

No, it is not.  If you had read the message more carefully, you would
have had to phrase your example as, "This is quite similar to saying
that nerve gas is harmless because scarcely anyone who has inhaled
substantial amounts of it has been killed by it."