Reply #119: Sounds like something Caldicott would say...

[PamW]

"Approximately 200 new elements formed some lasting millions and billions of years."
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That sounds like something Helen Caldicott would say.

She was on one of our local radio talk shows a while back and claimed that a single
kilogram of Plutonium if let loose into the environment would exterminate all life on Earth.

Although the precise amount is classified, the US Dept of Energy has confirmed that the
amount of Plutonium in the environment due to nuclear weapons tests in the atmosphere is
measured in metric tons or thousands of kilograms.

So the amount of Plutonium that is ACTUALLY in the environment is THOUSANDS
of times greater than what Caldicott claims will wipe out all life on the planet.

Why anyone believes the fear-monger is beyond me. I guess they don't know any better.

PamW