CFM and Geoduck need to chill out! Jeez guys, talk about feuding.... eek

Much of the shielding plates used at Hanford are sent for disposal as radioactive waste. Depending on the type of radiation they are exposed to (they can absorb certain types of radioactivity). Believe me, the shielding plates for reactors will never see their way into your friends garage. Many of the soft lead plates found here and there are from radiology jackets that are worn to protect xray techs from the gamma rays used in xrays. These are safe, as I have aquired them in the past ( I work in the Medical field) and tested them with a geiger counter borrowed from a friend of mine (Hanford Employee).
As far as toxic to rivers..... Lead does leach into water, but it has to be fairly acidic. The reason people get lead poisoning from the old lead pipes was mostly due to the advent of flouride and chlorine in the water system. Wasn't really a problem till they began to add that in the late 50's and 60's. Participated in a pretty in-depth study on the Columbia and it's tributaries in 1991-1993 and lead was hardly detectable in almost all areas. Arsenic, Chromium, DDT, Dioxin, PCP's, etc..... even some Plutonium was far more concentrated and these were all found in fish. The only fish to have minute levels were the andromadous species such as Steelhead and Salmon. The closer they lived to the bottom, the worse the contamination........ Bored yet? laugh

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