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- From: yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: Greenpeace press releases -- fact or fiction?
- Keywords: not in MY septic tank...
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 03:54:45 GMT
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- In article <C1Fpor.n1F@world.std.com> moroney@world.std.com (Michael Moroney) writes:
- >yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) writes:
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- >>Since Sellafield is acknowledged to be pumping Pu into the Irish sea,
- >>on purpose, and since the British government has had to actually move
- >>some beaches near Sellafield, and since there was a major fire at
- >>Sellafield in the 1950's, we know that "tiny trace" quantities are not
- >>as issue here.
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- >Once again, How Much Plutonium are we talking about? How much is Sellafield
- >releasing every day?
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- Once again: Sellafields operation is covered by the British Official Secrets
- Act and accurate acountings are not public, and possibly unknown. The UK
- government acknowledges 1/2 ton of plutonium over the last few decades
- as I recall. Look in Nature or New Scientist.
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