The US produced ~31.5 megatons of asbestos between 1900 and 2003,[1] where it was widely used in construction, manufacturing, industrial processing, clothing, and even film sets and Christmas decor.[2]
The US produced less than 112 tons of plutonium,[3] the principle trans-uranium element used industrially or militarily in the US, between 1944 and 1994.[4] This was, absent nuclear testing and grossly misguided military handling, not casually spread throughout the environment and most especially not in manufactured and constructed artefacts. And where plutonium contamination did occur it's been a multi-billion-dollar, multi-century environmental catastrophe.
Your argument is specious and utterly disconnected from reality in the context of asbestos's past and present uses and distribution.
3. Others include curium, used in RTG "nuclear batteries"; americium-241, used in smoke detectors; and californium-252. All are effectively produced in trace quantities, on the order of kilograms at best, rather than tonnes.
The US produced less than 112 tons of plutonium,[3] the principle trans-uranium element used industrially or militarily in the US, between 1944 and 1994.[4] This was, absent nuclear testing and grossly misguided military handling, not casually spread throughout the environment and most especially not in manufactured and constructed artefacts. And where plutonium contamination did occur it's been a multi-billion-dollar, multi-century environmental catastrophe.
Your argument is specious and utterly disconnected from reality in the context of asbestos's past and present uses and distribution.
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Notes:
1. <https://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/2006/1298/>
2. Snow & film sets: <https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fake-snow-asbestos/>, cigarette filters: <https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kent-cigarettes-asbestos-f...>.
3. Others include curium, used in RTG "nuclear batteries"; americium-241, used in smoke detectors; and californium-252. All are effectively produced in trace quantities, on the order of kilograms at best, rather than tonnes.
4. <https://sgp.fas.org/othergov/doe/pu50yc.html>