RE: U & Pu "poisoning of the environment"

Well, I wouldn't want to snort the stuff daily, but its toxicity has been overrated in the popular press.

Epidemiologic studies of workers [even wartime workers with impressive body burdens/ exposures] in a number of uranium bomb-making centers have found ~ no health effects.

I haven't heard much about Pu-workers.

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