arromdee@inetnow.net wrote:

On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Philip Hacker wrote:

Actually, plutonium is *the* most toxic substance known to Mankind.

Go ahead, give me a source for this information.  You won't be able to find
one.

The ANRC (Amarillo National Resource Center for plutonium) Consortium
(University of Texas, Texas Tech, and Texas A&M) is about to release a
comprehensive series of books on Plutonium. They are graduate level
reference books that I was able to browse through during a Waste
Management convention (Specializing in nuclear waste management, and
Decommissioning/Disposal of nuclear facilities) here in Tucson that took
place two weeks ago.

Book One: "Advances in the Chemistry of Plutonium, 1967-1997," by
various contributors, and featuring a special report by Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory researchers Dr. Darlene Hoffman and Dr
Carl Nash.

Book Two: "Health Effects and Radiation Safety Considerations," by Dr
John W. Poston, Sr. and Dr Ian S. Hamilton.

Book Three: "Plutonium in the Environment," by Dr Richard Charbeneau.
 

(And people can stop saying 'I worked with it and I know it's dangerous'.
Dangerous enough that it can kill you if you mishandle it, and dangerous
enough that it's the most toxic substance known to man and can kill the
population of a city with a very small amount, aren't the same thing.)

Jeanne Hedge's testimony should have been more than enough (she's
trained in Health Physics, if you ask. They are the people that assess
the biological effects on people from radionuclides.)

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