On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 07:11:12PM +0000, Wes Peters wrote: > Yeah. Most of the radiological materials used in the USA during > the nuclear boom of the 40s and 50s were dug out of the ground > within a 200 mile radius of Moab. The rock buttes around there > are dotted with old uranium mines, also rich in Cs 137 and Sr 90. > > The Bureau of Land Management (aka the Bureau of Livestock and > Mining) has slowly been cementing over the entrances of the mines > for years. People go in there and wander around, not realizing > they're getting a lifetime of radiation in a 2-hour visit and > inhaling concentrations of Radon that make doctors shudder in > horror.
Aha! Now I know where to send my brother-in-law on holiday... -- Michael Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Absolute BSD: http://www.AbsoluteBSD.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
