No this has nothing to do with being Russian and everything to do with being
a geologist.
I just know how radioactive rocks and soils can be and that there is no
guarantee that the tomato I slice for my girls this evening has not been
growing just on top of such.
Certainly there are tons of other things that can harm them, but this one I
know and it can be eliminated fast and simple.
I am not a safety freak, but I when I drive I assume to be among suicide
drivers and I switch my computer when I leaver home. I guess working for
months in the wilderness without any chance to have help within hundreds of
miles and later delivering yachts from Sweden to Mediterranean coast
single-handedly made me that way.

Sasha.



"Melinda" > wrote in message
...
> Ah, but keep in mind (and Sasha I don't know if this is why or not, pure
> idle speculation) that Russia or more specifically Ukraine is the one
> place recently that has had a major nuclear meltdown. And the veggies and
> soil within a certain radius is, of course, still radioactive to a
> detrimental degree.
>
> Not keeping people from moving there though...folks gotta eat even if it
> glows.
>
> Completely off topic, but at one point I had to have my thyroid oblated
> (that means nuked , cooked, shrunk) and they gave me a radioactive iodine
> pill for it (iodine collects in the thyroid). When they brought it out of
> the little case it was in, I asked them to pass a Geiger counter over
> it...
>
> Me being the nerd I am, I thought it was cool. I also thought it was cool
> that they recommended I not sleep next to my husband for the first night
> or two. Just till I stopped glowing I guess.
>
> Melinda
>
>
> "Derek" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 03:39:30 GMT, Dog Ma 1 wrote:
>>
>>> Alex wrote:
>>>> Certainly I own one. And I do check things out sometimes. Especially
>>> produce
>>>> that we buy on farmer's markets, etc.
>>>
>>> Wow - a degree of paranoia to which I have never even aspired. Of
>>> course,
>>> here in the northeastern US, background radon levels from cracked
>>> granite
>>> are so high that mere fallout and nuke-plant meltdowns are relatively
>>> inconsequntial.
>>
>> If I lived in Nevada, I'd probably be worried, too.
>>
>> But here in Minnesota, we've got bigger issues with CO and Radon. It's
>> "seal up your house and keep all the cold air out, or else you're
>> going to give the power company half of your paycheck each month"
>> season, which happens to coincide with greater danger from CO and
>> Radon.
>>
>>> I have a simple one I made as a pre-teen nerd. I occasionally take it
>>> out to
>>> show someone that the following really are pretty hot: old luminous-dial
>>> watches, the high-dispersion glass elements in older camera lenses, and
>>> red
>>> Fiestaware.
>>
>> Watches and camera lenses, I knew. But red Fiestaware? All of it, or
>> just the older stuff?
>>
>>> But never tea.
>>
>> Thank goodness.
>>
>> --
>> Derek
>>
>> Much work remains to be done before we can announce our total failure
>> to make any progress.
>
>