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Jasana

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28. Sadly I thought you were joking in the header message...

Tue Feb 26, 2013, 10:26 PM

Feb 2013

and then I clicked...and oh Holy Shit! Are they insane? This thread should be tacked somewhere with the words READ ME in red. (Perhaps glowing red would be most appropriate.)

Hopefully bumping it back up to the top of GD will get more people to read it.

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Energy Dept announces plan to allow use of radioactive metal in consumer products [View all] HiPointDem Feb 2013 OP

What a country newfie11 Feb 2013 #1

Not To Worry.... global1 Feb 2013 #3

Oh yeah TG. Ng newfie11 Feb 2013 #21

What could possibly go wrong? TDale313 Feb 2013 #2

asshole chu's parting gift triplepoint Feb 2013 #4

Serves us right--We debated and debated where to put this garbage, and couldn't arrive at consensus… Journeyman Feb 2013 #5

Nice, way to blame the future victims. MadHound Feb 2013 #7

But wait....... Rain Mcloud Feb 2013 #8

We elected Obama to block this kind of crap, not enable it! Divernan Feb 2013 #9

Time to be outraged - yet again! colorado_ufo Feb 2013 #6

Almost everything in nature is radioactive to some level quaker bill Feb 2013 #10

well then let's add it to our cereal leftyohiolib Feb 2013 #15

Your cereal is radioactive already, get used to it - in fact you already are. quaker bill Feb 2013 #30

Cobalt 60 and cesium 137 newfie11 Feb 2013 #22

True, but are these proposed for re-use as anything other than a radiation source? quaker bill Feb 2013 #29

Sure there is radiation AND then there is RADIATION newfie11 Feb 2013 #32

We do our best to educate Quaker Bill - Divernan Feb 2013 #42

Neither one of these are anything I want near me. quaker bill Feb 2013 #44

That would make some great stuff to Hubert Flottz Feb 2013 #11

So "they" get to put this timdog44 Feb 2013 #12

Worked so well on the Navajo Reservation. Downwinder Feb 2013 #13

Yep I am a downwinders too newfie11 Feb 2013 #23

Kerr McGee got the Uranium formercia Feb 2013 #33

They got all of that nice construction material Downwinder Feb 2013 #38

The EU's Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive. Divernan Feb 2013 #14

Holy cow Batman, excellent comment FogerRox Feb 2013 #17

Thanks for taking the time to read through it. Divernan Feb 2013 #19

Thanks for this post, Divernan. It's an important read to go along with OP.. KoKo Feb 2013 #35

Nuclear Risks at Bed, Bath & Beyond Show Dangers of Scrap KoKo Feb 2013 #36

Bed,BathTissue boxes tainted with melted cobalt-60 used in medical instruments! Divernan Feb 2013 #41

They have been wanting to reuse the carbon in radiation plants for years, putting them Baitball Blogger Feb 2013 #16

also in the concrete and paving materials that we build with ThomThom Feb 2013 #18

WTF IS GOING ON WITH THIS COUNTRY?! JaneyVee Feb 2013 #20

I say this many times a day newfie11 Feb 2013 #24

Me, too. Frankly, I'm glad I'm old. I weep for my grandson. nt Nay Feb 2013 #27

I know the feeling newfie11 Feb 2013 #34

We used to have a Democratic Party that stood in opposition to corporatist, predatory policies. woo me with science Feb 2013 #40

I think we thought we did...and it ended with Carter...so... KoKo Feb 2013 #47

I do believe it's time to buy a Geiger Counter. nt Ilsa Feb 2013 #25

Not so easy to detect rads RobertEarl Feb 2013 #39

I just FB'd to my kids that this is what I want for Mother's Day Divernan Feb 2013 #43

Because it worked out so well before? HooptieWagon Feb 2013 #26

Sadly I thought you were joking in the header message... Jasana Feb 2013 #28

Which Obama crony will get even richer off of this? forestpath Feb 2013 #31

Thousands of consumer products found to contain low levels of radiation KoKo Feb 2013 #37

K&R...it's a good discussion from OP and the Rest of it.."in our times." KoKo Feb 2013 #45

WTF?? Unfreakinbelievable!! DearHeart Feb 2013 #46