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- From: rrempel@selkirk.sfu.ca (Rodney Dwight Rempel)
- Subject: Re: Avoiding radioactive household products
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1992Aug24.164324.19218@SSD.intel.com> <1992Aug24.185340.19127@unlinfo.unl.edu> <1992Aug25.235542.17607@sopwith.uucp> <1992Aug26.025131.479@athena.cs.uga.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:37:01 GMT
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- mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes:
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- >In article <1992Aug25.235542.17607@sopwith.uucp> snoopy@sopwith.uucp (Snoopy) writes:
- >>In article <1992Aug24.185340.19127@unlinfo.unl.edu> cbettis@unlinfo.unl.edu (clifford bettis) writes:
- >>
- >>| Comparable sources can be found in smoke
- >>| detectors, lantern mantels and even salt substitute.
- >>
- >>Speaking of which, where can one get smoke detectors that are
- >>nuke-free these days? I can't find them anywhere... :-(
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- >For that matter, how about nuke-free bananas?
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- >(Bananas contain potassium, and potassium is one of many elements which,
- >in the naturally occurring mixture of isotopes, are slightly radioactive.
- >People have never lived in a radiation-free environment.)
- >--
-
- Come on now ... the radiation from the foundation of the house is way
- worse for you than the bananas. So is the radiation from the other
- people in the house ... I'ld like to suggest that the radiation-phobes
- move to a deserted island and eat only naturally grown grain, but both
- the air they will be breathing and the grain will still contain
- radioactive isotopes ... Better luck next life.
-
- Back on topic ... if it makes you feel better, I think that some
- companies used to make smoke detectors that electrically ionized the
- sample instead of using a nuke-source. You may want to check the ol'
- Comsumer Reports, but I remember that they worked much worse than the
- cheap, effective, ones.
-
- Rod Rempel - rrempel@sfu.ca
- Department of Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University
- ... if two million people do a stupid thing it's still a stupid thing.
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