RE: possible sources for sheet lead and mineral/ transformer oil?

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Original poster: "Carl Litton" <Carl_Litton-at-hilton-dot-com> 

Good catch, David.  Actually ionizing radiation (high energy photons or
particles) have the ability to transmute atoms of a given element into
another element or isotope of the same element - often a radioactive
one.  This principle is sometimes used in particle accelerators to
create a given element and in the so-called 'breeder' fission reactors.
It seems rather unlikely that hospital wall lining material from x-ray
or nuclear medicine therapy would have much of this occurring.

The stuff about 'giving it up all at once' is not clear as to what
physical process is being referred to.  The so-called 'nuclear accident'
which occasionally occurs with purified Plutonium 239, whereupon it
suddenly and violently ejects an immensely intense and lethal discharge
of neutrons would simply not occur with lead wall lining.

Certainly, if radioactive species had been formed over time, subjecting
the material to smelting could result in concentration of these if
density/solubility differences in the liquid phase resulted in formation
of layers.  Once again the likelihood of fission or transmutation
products in hospital wall shielding is vanishingly small.

Carl Litton
Hilton Hotels Corporation
901-374-5747

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Original poster: "David Rieben" <drieben-at-midsouth.rr-dot-com>

Hi,

Maybe someone more knowledgable that myself should
further comment on this but that just doesn't "add up" to
me. I wouldn't think that just because a piece of lead has
stopped radiation that it would have "accumulated" all of
the radiation that it had "cuaght". With this line of think-
ing, it would be mortally dangerous to drink UV radiation
treated water, wouldn't it? Also, by the same token, a
black piece of construction paper should "glow" when
placed in a dark room after being layed out in the full sun
light all day, shouldn't it?

David Rieben

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  > Original poster: "Gary Weaver" <gary350-at-earthlink-dot-net>
  >
  > WARNING.  Lead from an e-ray room in a hospital or any other lead
used as
a
  > shield will hold the radiation and release it in very small harmless
  > amounts over a long period of time.  But if you melt that same lead
it
  > releases all the radiation that has been captured by the lead in a
few
  > seconds.   This can cause you to receive an over dose of radiation.
  >
  > Gary Weaver