RE: U & Pu "poisoning of the environment"

[merriman@metronet.com]

>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.

Well, there you go - that's your answer.  :-|

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