Scary fact / LZ-Boy chair

SpeCies · Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2002 1:23 am Post subject:

I know this is off topic here but oh well.

Steinhausler, a visiting scholar at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation, said that orphaned radioactive material presents a real threat because victims may not know that they have been exposed. "Many countries don't even have a central register of radioactive materials," he said. "If they don't know what they have, they don't know what they've lost."

A case in point: In 1997, La-Z-Boy Inc. made about 6,000 recliner chairs with steel from Brazil that was accidentally contaminated by radiation. About 1,000 chairs were sold in the United States before the contamination was discovered.

"The best description of the threat scenario is the U.S. itself," which has one of the best registration systems for radioactive material, said Steinhausler. Every year, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission receives 200 reports of lost, stolen or abandoned radioactive sources. "If the U.S. loses control of a registered source almost every second day, what do you expect goes on in the rest of the world? Whether it is in scrap metal or in terrorism, you will meet it again."

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/pr/02/database36.html

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thewz · Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2002 6:03 pm Post subject:

Freaky, but why did you write it out two times?

Actually, just in case you did not know. All Americans are MUTANTS!

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/03/01/nuclear.fallout/index.html

There's no way i'm going to share my continent with a bunch of muties!

ROOFCUTTER · Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2002 6:07 pm Post subject:

I think I'm going to the surplus store and buy a geiger counter! Just one more thing to be paranoid of. It even makes sense to use the contaminated material in a product that will be exported. No material no problem!
I bet there are people who don't even care if it leaves their own country.

How can this be off topic, you were the first to post

thewz · Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2002 6:08 pm Post subject:

Nuclear fallout is cool!

FingerDemon · Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2002 7:29 pm Post subject:

This might explain why my recliner is always warm even in winter. I thought that LazyBoy had just thrown in a heating massage unit for free, but I never have found any controls for it. hmmmmm......

And another thing, do they normally have night lights?

<TVB>FingerDemon
the hunt is on!

SpeCies · Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2002 12:39 pm Post subject:

LOL! that just goes to show what a keyboard
with sticky keys contributes too. TY Avenger.

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