Uranium- it ain’t just for breakfast anymore.
Bout time, now where can I order me some of them radium suppositories?
I have no idea if there's any validity to that, and no, I wouldn't want to sign up for the treatment.
Radioactivity is good. It’s a treatment against cancer.
apropos...
—IIRC, Dr. Edward Teller put it in perspective when he stated that he got more radioactive exposure flying to visit Three Mile Island than anyone did from the released radioactive material-—
there goes polonium-210’s future.
Unless you're a smoker, or eat too many cheeseburgers or drive an SUV or ..........
There’s been a lot written about how low-dose radiation exposure can be good for you. It turns out those healing springs known since antiquity were good because of the background radiation in the rocks, not the waters.
Yesterday was the one year anniversary of the death of the retired Soviet spy whose drink had been poisoned with radioactive materials. I guess, in his case, the dangers of radiation were not overstated.
“Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it’s bad for you. Pernicious nonsense! Everybody could stand a hundred chest x-rays a year. They ought to have them, too.” - J. Frank Parnell in Repo Man
I don’t know. I see a lot of articles about the problems the depleted uranium ammo has done to our own troops.
And look up Radiation Hormesis, the theory that some exposure may be beneficial. We live in an environment with a fair amount of natural radiation, it would be no surprise if we adapted to it and used it to our benefit.
Then there are all the Fiestaware plates out there.
Deaths from radiation for those near the center of the atomic blasts were high. Then, there is a ring around the blast sites where deaths were lower than normal. Farther away, deaths were normal. So there is a dose of radiation, even from the atomic bombs, that lowered the incidence of cancer.
The fact is that almost everything that will kill you, in a high enough dose, is actually good for you if the right dose is found.
I agree somewhat, but many of the deaths do take decades to happen. Naval personnel that were stationed at Hawthorne during WW II have had a cancer rate that is more than five times normal.
Radioactivity ain’t fun. Just ask the Russian children born with no legs and three arms near Chernobyl.
in a DU tank shell,
or any other such projectile,
does the DU material come in contact
with the rifle barrel?
It is not a black/white settled issue. Radiation/Radiation poisoning is a matter of degree and exposure. Sort of like the Sun or fire in a way.
The long term effects of residual Radioactive contamination have not borne out to what was originally predicted. Look at Hiroshima and the area around Chernobyl. Apparently the soil will absorb and contain these products.
However it looks as Chernobyl was contaminated to a much greater measure than Hiroshima, so the comparison may not be valid. And I think that since nuclear radiation is just one part of the electro-magnetic spectrum, that biologically we can absorb and recover from its deleterious effects within limits.