Marshall,

Thanks for the info. I'll be sure to steer clear of Coleman lanterns for now on!

      Bob
----- Original Message ----- From: "Marshall Dudley" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: CS>A closer look at americium 241 from a smoke detector


Yes, if you look inside a Coleman lantern you will see one or two mantels, they are basically ash and easily break. If they break you have to replace them. They are covered with radioactive thorium.

Marshall

Bob Banever wrote:
Marshall,

What is a Coleman Lantern mantel? I've heard of Coleman stoves and lanterns used in camping... is this the same company?

       Bob
----- Original Message ----- From: "Marshall Dudley" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 8:55 AM
Subject: Re: CS>A closer look at americium 241 from a smoke detector


Richard Goodwin wrote:
I thought I was being clearer than that. Not sure that radiation or anything else has a "rightful" place where it "should" be, but the stuff in the ground is certainly far from harmless -- how many people have died

of cancer who lived in houses full of radon all their short lives?

And yes, if you dig it up and concentrate it into something that is now highly radioactive, and put it in your pocket, of course you will suffer consequences. But why would you do that?

Maybe because you didn't know. I carried a Coleman lantern mantel in my billfold for years before I found out that it is highly radioactive, giving me the equivalent of an X-ray almost hourly.

Marshall


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