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Date:      Sun, 16 Feb 2003 11:32:42 -0500
From:      "Michael W . Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc:        Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, Erick Mechler <emechler@techometer.net>, FreeBSD Stable List <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ECC memory error reporting
Message-ID:  <20030216113242.A83233@blackhelicopters.org>
In-Reply-To: <200302151911.12976.wes@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 07:11:12PM %2B0000
References:  <20030214070641.GV20271@techometer.net> <200302141653.54888.wes@softweyr.com> <20030215161152.B65022@freebie.xs4all.nl> <200302151911.12976.wes@softweyr.com>

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On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 07:11:12PM +0000, Wes Peters wrote:
> Yeah.  Most of the radiological materials used in the USA during 
> the nuclear boom of the 40s and 50s were dug out of the ground 
> within a 200 mile radius of Moab.  The rock buttes around there
> are dotted with old uranium mines, also rich in Cs 137 and Sr 90.  
> 
> The Bureau of Land Management (aka the Bureau of Livestock and 
> Mining) has slowly been cementing over the entrances of the mines 
> for years.  People go in there and wander around, not realizing 
> they're getting a lifetime of radiation in a 2-hour visit and 
> inhaling concentrations of Radon that make doctors shudder in 
> horror.


Aha!  Now I know where to send my brother-in-law on holiday...

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