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From: sesv@ihuxp.UUCP (Steve Sommars)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Giant Magnet
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Date: Thu, 25-Oct-84 12:32:34 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 25 12:32:34 1984
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>> In this case, "giant magnet" near Chicago is obviously
>> Fermi Lab. No doubt that instalation gets blamed for a lot in
>> your area, like the weather, pregnancies, lack of pregnancies,etc.

>It's not the giant magnet, it's those nice sub-atomic particles
>flying out!  Would *you* live in West Chicago? (*)

Just for the record, today West Chicago gets negligible radiation
from Fermilab.  Depending upon accelerator usage, the main
particles which escape and head to West Chicago are a very
small number of muons, and a very large number of neutrinos.  
Neither of these pose a health hazard to citizens of West Chicago.



	Steve Sommars
	AT&T Bell Laboratories
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