>Interesting report on Reuters, displayed on the Yahoo news pages
>yesterday.
>A 31 year study of GE employees exposed to PCBs showed no excess
>cancers - in fact, fewer than expected died of cancer.
>Maybe PCB containing components don't have to be treated as if they
>plutonium dust - just with reasonable care!
>73
>Peter G3RZP
As I understand it, plutonium dust is only a problem if you breathe it
in - mostly it gives off alpha particles and most of us are thick
skinned enough to withstand them :-) - you have to dodge the odd
neutron.
Steve
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