its_toxic andru235 while it isn't the *most* toxic substance known, as some have claimed, it is nevertheless toxic toxic toxic cancer causing at 1/1,000,000 of a gram, it replaces calcium in bones and...stays there. http://www.nukefreeaus.org/campaigns/Nuclear_Cycle/ STOP THE NEUTRON BOMBARDMENT! STOP DEPLETING URANIUM! STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP I'M BEGGING YOU STOP THE FISSION 050501 ... andru235 no one listens 050501 ... anomalous happy_fun_ball? 050501 ... andru235 a ball of plutonium truly can epitomize happy funness: especially when it levels a city and contaminates a continental water system 050501 ... andru235 oops: in the introductory post i forgot to mention that the alleged 'most toxic substance' is plutonium-239 (which, although close, it is not). and if you diluted a teaspoon of uranium-235 into an olympic swimming pool, one full gulp of water would be lethal. mithridatism is no defense! 050501 what's it to you? who go blather from