U & Pu "poisoning of the environment"

>From:   IN%"usura@vox.hacktic.nl"
>To:     IN%"cypherpunks@toad.com"
>CC:     
>Subj:   RE: Nuclear Weapons Material

[discussion about basement bomb building deleted]

>One doesnot need to detonate the Uranium/Plutonium one can poison the
>watersuplies and make havoc with The Simple Bear Necessities of life.

>--
>Exit! Stage Left.
>Alex de Joode                                 <usura@vox.hacktic.nl>


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.

I haven't heard much about Pu-workers.

Groeten,

bdolan@well.sf.ca.us