Posted on 07/07/2012 1:07:00 AM PDT by neverdem
Not saying you're wrong, or even that my memory is right, but the Prof. said he lost friends during the Manhattan project to Plutonium, and not because of the radiation.
Good. I’ve been spreading the word on this since I first encountered it about 25 years ago. That’s how ingrained the liberal 5th column is and how important the Internet is.
This should give conservatives some perspective as to how long it will take to right the ship and return to the Constitution. We’ll need to win for over a generation, plus break the government school monopoly.
The goal of environmentalists is less human life. So lying about beneficial results is consistent. They hate human beings.
Apparently, they only hate other human beings, since they don't seem to want to take the logical next step and remove themselves from the planet to save it.
They're absent logic. Hence the whole source of the problem. Mental illness posing as a philosophy/religion.
I don’t doubt that the lesson (to machine Plutonium only while water was flowing over it) was learned at the price of many lives.
Dust, if breathed in, is very toxic. A team was operating an atomic pile, when it got away from them. After they got it shut down, the chief ordered everyone to stay at their work station. He drew a circle around his feet, and signed it with a piece of chalk in his lab coat. He walked over to each physicist, and had them do the same. All of them died of radiation (IIRC) and from their distance from the pile, they their doses were calculated, and correlate with how long it took them to die.
One early reactor got away, and the rescue crew found all the bodies but one. Eventually they found the last one. One worker had removed a control rod too far, the reactor moderator boiled, and the last man was found pinned by the control rod to the ceiling, pinned through his chest by the control rod he was adjusting. After that control rods were controlled by a worm gear for positive control over the position.
Below please find a link to the material data safety sheet for plutonium. Note the difference between ingestion and inhalation hazards.
http://www.chemexper.net/specification_d/chemicals/supplier/cas/Plutonium.asp
Safer than oil, natural gas, wind generation or even solar.
I worked, briefly, inside a reactor at Idaho Falls at the National Engineering Laboratory. We were looking at an artificial intelligence diagnostic system.
Happy times!
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