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- From: jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll)
- Subject: Re: Why aren't things like plutonium shipments kept secret?
- Organization: University of Western Ontario, London
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:56:34 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.215634.25120@julian.uwo.ca>
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- In article <1992Nov11.134036.26973@becker.GTS.ORG> bdb@becker.GTS.ORG (Bruce Becker) writes:
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- On plutonium:
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- > Aside from being extremely radioactive with a
- > very long half-life [...].
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- Could you please explain how an isotope with
- a long half-life can also be highly active?
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- > Greenpeace very much represents the concerns
- > of everyone who demand to know what is going
- > on and who want to have a say in it (such as
- > "Plutonium - just say NO"; or the new video,
- > "this is your reactor [picture of atomic reactor]...
- > this is your reactor on plutonium [picture of
- > Chernobyl]")
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- Oh, yay, informationless scare tactics. By any chance,
- will you be using Mr Horton as an example of plutonium, since
- he gave such good service as a boogyman for the Republicans?
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- James Nicoll
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