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*** RADIATION ALERT *** PLUTONIUM CONFIRMED IN AIR NEAR CARLSBAD, NM
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Russell Hardy, the director for the Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center, gave a news release to the local Carlsbad paper, which cannot be linked to on GLP.
But if you read the article, you will see doublespeak and misinformation.
For example he makes claims like the following.
- The levels detected during this time period are higher than the normal background levels of radioactivity from transuranic elements commonly found at the sampling station
- transuranics, like Plutonium and Americium are so heavy that they don't travel far from their source, unless caught by large gusts of wind.
First - There is no such thing as a normal background level of a particular radioactive isotope. Unless that isotope is regularly released in the area.
Second - If they are regularly sampling and finding transuranic isotopes, they MUST be coming from local, because they don't travel far once they hit the ground.
Which would mean that taken literally, that plant regularly emits transuranic elements. And this sample happened to show more than normal. Which would be frightening.
Why frightening? After all this chump says the levels are "very low" and "well below being a public safety hazard".
Which is a pure lie. You inhale ONE plutonium atom, and it destroys the area where it lies in your body for your entire lifetime unless you take special measures to remove such heavy metals.
So ANY release of plutonium is a hazard.
It is just that they set artificial standards so that people don't get upset, and to offset their liability.
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