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  1. Xref: sparky misc.consumers:16013 sci.energy:4191 sci.environment:10998 talk.environment:3518
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!agate!jym
  3. From: jym@mica.berkeley.edu (Jym Dyer)
  4. Newsgroups: misc.consumers,sci.energy,sci.environment,talk.environment
  5. Subject: Re: Radioactivity and Superstition; was: Re: Are Your Light Bulbs Radioactive?
  6. Followup-To: misc.consumers
  7. Date: 2 Sep 92 15:25:53
  8. Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
  9. Lines: 19
  10. Message-ID: <JYM.92Sep2152553@remarque.berkeley.edu>
  11. References: <1992Aug24.232439.25914@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
  12.     <1992Aug26.171638.4066@sctc.com>
  13.     <1992Aug26.192043.24001@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
  14.     <1992Aug26.195524.25813@athena.cs.uga.edu>
  15.     <l9ns6oINNmol@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>
  16. NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu
  17. In-reply-to: de5@ORNL.GOV's message of 26 Aug 92 21:00:08 GMT
  18.  
  19. > [Followups, again, directed to misc.consumers.]
  20.  
  21. =o= I'm just correcting one statement, and I doubt there'll be
  22. controversy.  If so, followups, again, to misc.consumers.
  23.  
  24. > most folks don't have concentrated [radioactive] sources
  25. > laying around their house...unless they have smoke detectors
  26. > or compact flourescents.
  27.  
  28. =o= I just wanted to point out that this isn't true of all
  29. compact fluorescents.  Those with solid-state ballasts do
  30. not have radioactive elements.  Solid-state ballasts are,
  31. without exception, of better quality.
  32.  
  33. =o= (There are also smoke detectors without radioactive
  34. elements, but my understanding is that there are qualitative
  35. differences between those that have them and those that
  36. do not.)
  37.     <_Jym_>
  38.