--- mark ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: talk about complete misconception after misconception!
Now show me where you can buy a 700GBq Po-210 source (without any'questions asked') and I will be worried, until then... Pssst....Mark c'mere Opening rain coat to expose a shop's worth of trinkets Rolex Replica Watches? French Postcards? Transuranic isotopes? It was laughable but no real surprise that the press was reporting this was "a miniature "atomic bomb" inside the body". Talking empty heads are all that is left in journalist ranks. Few folks realize that most of the heavy metal radioactive elements are chemically poisonous in addition to their radiation dangers. Polonium is a neutron source used to ensure a runaway fission event aka atomic explosion, and like plutonium and thallium they are chemically at the top of inorganic toxins. Slippery stuff too. When the package of polonium arrived at the Trinity Site in July 45 the Dewar flask had failed and was empty. In the New Mexico heat the polonium had liquefied. After a brief search it was found puddled in the bottom of the shipping crate. Actually about 10-15 years back you COULD purchase most everything except plutonium isotopes across the counter. In the 80's some folks did indirectly purchase plutonium in scrap reactor steel. It was recycled by Border Steel in El Paso,TX into chair and table legs and sold throughout the US. Interesting story on how it was discovered. Now shall we talk about radioactive meteorites? I do recommend a Geiger scan for unusual "falls" on the out chance that it is space debris from a Topaz Plutonium powered thermocouple power unit that the "Soviets" launched and failed to keep track of. Elton ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
