http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/tritium-poisoning-at-indias-kaiga-nuclear-rea/blog/11450/
On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 11:21 PM, George Skorup <[email protected]> wrote: > Tritium illuminates reticles on some of my scopes, too. I assume that's what > you're talking about anyway. It's sealed inside of an aluminum tube, how bad > could it be? Meh. > > On 4/1/2016 10:20 PM, Josh Reynolds wrote: > > I can't count the amount of tritium in my house on two hands. > > And we always have lots of bananas! ;) > > I used to be stuck in a situation where I was forced to breath molten > "depleted" uranium smoke though :/ > > On Apr 1, 2016 10:13 PM, "Chuck McCown" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I do have chunk of uranium in a drawer in my kitchen. People do not have >> a realistic sense of the relative risk. >> >> From: Chuck McCown >> Sent: Friday, April 01, 2016 9:11 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Tesla Model 3... who else is getting one? >> >> What exactly do you imagine a radiation “leak” is. >> We are talking uranium dioxide. A ceramic pellet. Does not burn, melt, >> dissolve, evaporate... >> >> From: Stefan Englhardt >> Sent: Friday, April 01, 2016 7:53 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Tesla Model 3... who else is getting one? >> >> Reprocessing does not solve the problem. This waste does not vanish for an >> insane amount of time. No covering material lasts long enough. You have to >> reencapsule it to keep radiation inside. You need a place to store it and >> watch nothing leaks. Our power companies try to split the responsibility to >> a separate company. They know this company will die sometimes in the future. >> >> -------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- >> Von: Chuck McCown <[email protected]> >> Datum: 02.04.2016 03:04 (GMT+01:00) >> An: [email protected] >> Betreff: Re: [AFMUG] Tesla Model 3... who else is getting one? >> >> And why are you thinking the waste needs to be encapsulated? >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis >> >> Just reprocess it. And really it is not that dangerous. A tanker of >> chlorine or ammonia is much more dangerous. >> >> >> From: Stefan Englhardt >> Sent: Friday, April 01, 2016 6:56 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Tesla Model 3... who else is getting one? >> >> Nuclear is very expensive. If you calculate the cost of moving and >> reencapsulating the waste for some thousand years. Your ancestors will learn >> that no energy company will exist long enough to take responsibility for the >> waste they generated. This will be done by the tax payer. >> >> -------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- >> Von: Josh Luthman <[email protected]> >> Datum: 01.04.2016 22:18 (GMT+01:00) >> An: [email protected] >> Betreff: Re: [AFMUG] Tesla Model 3... who else is getting one? >> >
