Reply #136: Let's look at the written record

[kristopher]

It is on page 110 from the book "If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth" By Helen Caldicott

"Plutonium remains radioactive and poisonous for half a million years, and just one pound (about half a kilogram) of plutonium could induce lung cancer in every human lung on Earth if adequately distributed."

http://books.google.com/books?id=P0Wm7zdiCnUC&pg=PA110&lpg=PA110&dq=caldicott+kilogram+plutonium&source=bl&ots=tr9y55nVuV&sig=dodbA4W19noyQFqnC7CJvWfL-y0&hl=en&ei=ema8TaKOJIPAtgfgwuzQBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=one%20pound%20of%20plutonium&f=false

This is a discussion about evaluation of the risks of low level radiation and it is far broader than Caldicott. That you elect to attack her through misrepresentation of the argument is unfortunate. You may or may not have found an instance when, in a verbal interview the entire thought didn't make it out; but the statement is so widely known it is hard to believe you stumbled on that instance (if it occurred) by chance. It has the distinct aroma of being part of a packaged smear campaign known to be employed by the massive and totally amoral fission industry against its critics.