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echo: barktopus
to: Steve Ewing
from: Don Hills
date: 2004-10-05 14:09:42
subject: Re: Will Smoke Detectors be banned by Homeland Security?

From: dmhills{at}attglobal.net (Don Hills)

In article , "Steve
Ewing"  wrote:
>
>Heh; remember this (I posted it a while back)?
>
>http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html

Google found me this:

"...Quick calcs show that he had about 0.04 grams worth of radioactive
materials, enough to make 6 millionths of a critical assembly. If 160,000
of his fellow scouts helped, I'd worry. This is about as much radioactive
material as in a few blocks of the granite in the Washington Monument. As
usual, the NRC and EPA overreacted by a factor of 1,000 (as the good little
bureaucrats they are)."

--
Don Hills    (dmhills at attglobaldotnet)     Wellington, New Zealand
It's ironic that people who are too smart to engage in politics are
governed by people who are not as smart.

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