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From: animal@ihlpa.UUCP (D. Starr)
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Subject: Re: "zillion fatal doses of Plutonium"
Message-ID: <1158@ihlpa.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Feb-86 14:31:27 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 27 14:31:27 1986
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> 
 [concerning the claim that plutonium fuel from Galileo would have
 posed dangers had that probe been aboard Challenger...]
> 
> If that was true, then the entire state of Nevada's population would be
> dead by now from the A-Bomb tests of the 50s and 60s. 

The state of Nevada's not dead, but the state of Utah, which is downwind
of the bomb test sites, has an unusually high cancer rate.