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  1. Newsgroups: sci.energy
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU!CSD-NewsHost!jmc
  3. From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
  4. Subject: Re: Notch another one up for the Greennazis
  5. In-Reply-To: stead@skadi.CSS.GOV's message of 19 Nov 92 22:35:13 GMT
  6. Message-ID: <JMC.92Nov20072352@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
  7. Followup-To: sci.energy
  8. Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
  9. Reply-To: jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU
  10. Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
  11. References: <1992Nov19.145341.5393@inel.gov> <51516@seismo.CSS.GOV>
  12. Date: 20 Nov 92 07:23:52
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  15. What is the source of your scenario about the microgram of Pu?  What
  16. does it assume about the chemical state?  Does it take into account
  17. eventual harm from the alpha radiation, or is it concerned with
  18. chemical poisoning?
  19.  
  20. What about Bernard Cohen's willingness to eat and breathe plutonium
  21. oxide?  To be elected President of the Health Physics Society, he
  22. certainly must be regarded by health physicists as an expert.
  23. --
  24. John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
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  26. He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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