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- From: co940@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Nicholas E. Damato)
- Newsgroups: talk.environment
- Subject: Re: Plutinium poisoning: Was Re: Greenpeace: they're not just for...
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 06:12:03 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- According to information i've received from a sympathetic source,
- the maximum tolerated quarterly dose of inhaled Pu vs Po
- is smaller on a microcurie basis:
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- From the 1991-92 edition of the CRC Hanbook:
- Max tolerated quarterly doses of inhaled atomic:
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- Po-210 = 1.3 E-01 Microcuries
- Pu-239 = 2.4 E-02 Microcuries
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- However, Po is approx. 64 times as radioactive as Pu.
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- I'd like to offer the following Hypothesis:
- Po is a transition metal in the same group as O, S, Se
- Is it possible that Po duplicates one or more of these
- substances as utilized by the body (e.g. Selenium) and hence
- may be more toxic because of the larger # of available
- pathways?
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- Food for thought...
- ned.
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