RE: filmscanners: On dust

[Cliff Ober <cdober@ev1.net>]

The risks of plutonium may be somewhat overblown - here's some resources
that, if nothing else, should help put you to sleep  ;^)

Cliff Ober


http://www.powerup.com.au/~dominion/ff/p22.htm

http://www.llnl.gov/csts/publications/sutcliffe/

http://www.ans.neep.wisc.edu/~ans/point_source/AEI/may95/plutonium_eff.html

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/sciobs95/sciobs95-03.html



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Arthur Entlich
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 12:30 AM
To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
Subject: Re: filmscanners: On dust

That better be polonium-210 not plutonium!  Plutonium is so dangerous
one atom is enough to cause cancer.  It is used in nuclear power plants.
  Polonium-210 (probably isn't pure, anyway) still isn't "safe" (no
ionizing radiation is) it is probably similar in danger to Americium
which is used in smoke detectors, but you don't keep a smoke detector
next to your hand hold it regularly... and the problem of discarding it
after you are done with it is a consideration as well...