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- From: de5@ORNL.GOV (Dave Sill)
- Subject: Re: Are Your Light Bulbs Radioactive?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.181839.25006@ornl.gov>
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- Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
- References: <1992Aug24.221305.7696@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <1992Aug24.232439.25914@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <l9k6fkINNqb0@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> <1992Aug25.152857.19117@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 18:18:39 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug25.152857.19117@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes:
- >
- > Ahhh, but I *am* a parent. And if you are worried about yours injesting
- > the source from a lightbulb or a smoke detector, I suggest that you
- > have bigger worries than just the little source. Apparently you
- > should keep all objects destroyable by hammer out of reach of
- > your children. I don't know about you, but *I'd* hate to lose
- > *my* televisions.
-
- You're thinking too narrowly. It isn't necessary to use a hammer to break a
- light bulb. Nobody is suggesting that extreme measures be taken to counteract
- this risk--just that the risk exists. Forewarned is forearmed. Knowing that
- compact flourescents and smoke detectors contain radioactive sources will help
- parents take the precaustions necessary to use them safely.
-
- > I suggest that the class of children
- > with the 1) strength combined with the 2) inability to recognize food
- > with the 3) required stealth with the 4) cognative ability to actually
- > reach the vast majority of smoke detectors, is vanishingly small.
-
- I suggest you're missing the point. Calm down and reread the thread rationally
- and critically. *You're* the one who's blowing this out of proportion.
-
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