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Old April 18, 2008, 06:07 AM   #15
FL-Flinter
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Absolutely all this lead is unsafe and should be delivered to me for safe and proper disposal! Do not delay, get rid of it today! Don't you folks read the paper? Why, just the mere presence of lead is enough to cause massive loss of life, that is if the global warming doesn't burn you up first.

Read for yourself here http://www.ewg.org/files/leadpoll.pdf where you'll find such dis-informative LIES like
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A single shot from a 30-30 Winchester containing 8.1 grams of lead could contaminate about 370 cubic feet of soil to Superfund site contamination levels (the equivalent of about 56 bathtubs filled with Superfund site dirt).
To answer your question, the lead itself cannot be radioactive, but it can be contaminated with radioactive materials. X-ray barrier lead used in applications where radioactive tracer elements were used can become contaminated from the tracer elements and sometimes to unsafe levels but this would only be from industrial applications. Being that your lead came from a hospital, there is very little chance of it being contaminated with anything radioactive and even if it was exposed to radioactive tracers, the radiation level contained in tracers used for medical purposes is low enough not to worry about and if it survived the melting process, it'll come off in the dross anyway. X-ray is not radioactive like uranium, they are electrons. X-band radiation is like a high-power radio/radar transmitter - while the transmitter is operating, it can cook you but as soon as it's turned off, everything stops, there is no residual radiation.

In an X-ray application, the lead is used to prevent any excess radiation waves from posing a danger to others. Since an X-ray machine is nothing more than a concentrated beam radar transmitter, those electrons not used to make the actual X-ray picture will continue on their path until they are stopped by something ... the "something" is the lead sheet barrier surrounding the X-ray room. Lead is dense enough to trap the free-flying electrons, it absorbs them but there is no difference between this process and passing an electrical current through the lead, it's the same electrons just used in a different manner.

FYI: The most recent attacks on your gun rights is coming in the form of lead bans. The sole purpose of these bans is to drive the cost of ammunition high enough to prevent you from buying it. Numerous states and local municipalities have already allowed the junk science to sway them into shutting down shooting ranges and some have gone to the point of confiscating privately owned land in the process. It is junk science based solely on lies used for the sole purpose of advancing the anti-gun agenda and it's working quite well since there has been very little, mostly no opposition presented by pro-gun groups. This junk science (lies) have brought you the lead shot ban for waterfowl, lead shot bans at many trap/skeet ranges and most recently the lead bullet ban in condor areas within the socialist republic of Kalifornia.

If you care at all about your gun rights, or any of your rights as an American citizen for that matter, you need to support the Burden of Proof pettition coming later this year. The pettition will be presented to all 50 states as well as the US Congress and will require the burden of proof be placed on government so as to stop the passing of knee-jerk and other unsubstantiated legislation of any kind.
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