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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: "zillion fatal doses of Plutonium"
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Date: Sun, 2-Mar-86 00:38:58 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  2 00:38:58 1986
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> There seems to be a lot of agreement among the medical community that
> there is NO SUCH THING as a safe level of exposure...

I believe the agreement is that this is the proper assumption for purposes
of health planning, not that it is necessarily physical fact.  If nothing
else, there comes a point where exposure is an insignificant fraction of
the natural background exposure.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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