Subject:  radioactive household products  (Weiner)
Date:     Thu, 7 Oct 1999 121720 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" 
To:       emfguru 
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Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 12:54:18 -0700
From: Bob Weiner 
To: "Roy L. Beavers" 
Subject: radioactive household products 

Hi Roy,

I came upon this from a Public Citizen newsletter.  Why worry about a
"trivial" amount of nonionizing radiation when you can buy a cell phone
that emits its own ionizing radiation?
This is the same tactic that industries have used to "recycle" toxic
waste by calling it fertilizer and selling or giving it to farmers to
put on their soil.  This practice of "recycling" radioactive material
apparently is going on world-wide.  I suppose Gore invented
environmentalism the same time he invented the internet.

That someone could even conceive of putting hazardous materials on
farmland or allowing "low-level" radioactive waste to be widely
distributed is psychotic thinking which far transcends greed.   Greed I
can understand.  Behavior like this makes me ashamed to be a human.

Some resources and brief excerpts follow.

Bob Weiner


http://www.citizen.org/CMEP/radmetal/radioactive_recyclingindex.htm


The Floodgates Are Opening For Radioactive Metal Recycling!
  Do You Know If Your Child's Braces Are Radioactive?
    Why Should I Care About Radioactive Metal?
http://www.citizen.org/CMEP/radmetal/radrecycle.htm


NUCLEAR SPOONS Hot metal may find its way to your dinner table
 BY ANNE-MARIE CUSAC
http://www.progressive.org/cusac9810.htm
John Gofman is a former associate director of Livermore National
Laboratory, one of the
scientists who worked on the atomic bomb, and co-discoverer of
uranium-233. ''There is no safe dose or dose rate below which dangers
disappear. No threshold-dose,'' said Gofman. ''Serious, lethal effects
from minimal radiation doses are not 'hypothetical,' 'just theoretical,'
or 'imaginary.' They are real.''

 Karl Morgan, known as the father of health physics, shudders at the
idea of more and more
 radioactive metal entering people's homes. He is particularly worried
about dental fillings. ''You certainly don't want people going around
with radioactive teeth,'' he says.

 Some of the most dangerous radioactivity around the home, says Morgan,
will be the metals
 people unintentionally ingest. ''Some of these find their way directly
into the human body, especially copper and iron, stainless steel [from]
knives and forks,'' he says. ''It doesn't help any cell in the human
body if you send an alpha particle through it.''


One Hundred Eighty-Seven Organizations Call on Vice President Gore
 to Stop Radioactive Recycling into Consumer Products  Wednesday, August
11, 1999
http://www.citizen.org/CMEP/radmetal/gorepress.htm
Washington, DC--One hundred eighty-seven consumer, public interest,
labor and environmental groups from across the country and around the
world delivered a letter to Vice President Al Gore today, calling on him
to stop the release of radioactive materials from nuclear weapons and
power plants into every day consumer goods and building materials.

    Specifically, the letter calls for a halt to a Gore-supported
contract by the U.S. Department of Energy and BNFL, Inc. at the massive,
closed uranium enrichment buildings in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The
contract allows over 100,000 tons of radioactive metal (nickel,
aluminum, copper and steel) to be "processed" and released into the
marketplace to produce consumer products such as belt buckles, zippers,
frying pans, forks, and baby carriages. There would be no limit on the
final use of the contaminated material and there has been no
notification nor consent of the steel industry, workers and members of
the public who will be exposed.





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