The Truth About Depleted Uranium
Here's your idols in the military telling you it will make a third eye grow out of your forehead. If you don't want to believe them - look on youtube for another slew of videos or go to google and look at the 1000 articles. Or keep waving a flag and calling for murder, whatever.
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Comment by Elmers Brother— 2007/11/25 @ 06:36 PM — (Reply)
Comment by Ernie Els— 2007/11/25 @ 06:37 PM — (Reply)
The UN issued a 600 page report called Chernobyl's Legacy finding that only 50 deaths could be attributed to acute radiation exposure..the NYT reported this in June of 2000, that included 30 people who were killed inside the plant
Supposed high thyroid levels were found to be unrelated to the accident as that part of the region is iodine deficient anyway
by 2001 the radiation level in Chernobyl is less than in someone's back yard in Denver Colorado
the animals that were left there are said to be thriving
a well known toxicologist Cham Dallas from the Univ. of Georgia visited the area many times and studied mice living close to the dead reactor and they seem to be unscathed
the presence of uranium in Colorado is twice the natural radiation and it's greater altitude means less protection from the suns cosmic rays so you'd think there'd be higher levels of radiation caused cancers etc.? right?
They're actually 2/3 of the national average.
I recommend "The Myth of Plutonium Toxicity" by Bernard L. Cohen
and a visit to http://cnts.wpi.edu/rsh....a website dedicated to an objective investigation of low level radiation
the linear threshold model is being revised
Comment by Elmers Brother— 2007/11/25 @ 08:32 PM — (Reply)
http://www.radscihealth.org/rsh/
Comment by Elmers Brother— 2007/11/25 @ 08:40 PM — (Reply)
It's not just Iraq either. That crap blows around real easily. And its not just their people - you'll see more about it when our soldiers start having babies.
Comment by Dugg— 2007/11/25 @ 08:51 PM — (Reply)
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Comment by Barry G.— 2007/11/25 @ 09:16 PM — (Reply)
Comment by Dugg— 2007/11/26 @ 01:20 AM — (Reply)
Comment by Damjan— 2007/11/26 @ 12:49 AM — (Reply)
Dugg, you pasted in one video that is far from conclusive and the links I googled certainly don't indicate that agreement with your theory "is all over the net".
Comment by Barry G.— 2007/11/26 @ 06:49 AM — (Reply)
Comment by Damjan— 2007/11/26 @ 07:55 AM — (Reply)
Comment by Elmers Brother— 2007/11/26 @ 08:12 AM — (Reply)
Comment by Dugg— 2007/11/26 @ 11:15 AM — (Reply)
Comment by Elmers Brother— 2007/11/26 @ 08:13 AM — (Reply)
Comment by Dugg— 2007/11/26 @ 11:15 AM — (Reply)
I've had babies after exposure to DU
Comment by Elmers Brother— 2007/11/26 @ 08:15 AM — (Reply)
Comment by Dugg— 2007/11/26 @ 11:03 AM — (Reply)
BTW ever had an X-ray?
90 mrem of beta/gamma radiation per x-ray...what do you think it is for DU?
Comment by Elmers Brother— 2007/11/26 @ 08:17 AM — (Reply)
Comment by Dugg— 2007/11/26 @ 11:05 AM — (Reply)
Depleted uranium is a heavy metal that is also slightly radioactive.
A common misconception is that radiation is depleted uranium's primary hazard. This is not the case under most battlefield exposure scenarios. Depleted uranium is approximately 40 percent less radioactive than natural uranium. Depleted uranium emits alpha and beta particles, and gamma rays. Alpha particles, the primary radiation type produced by depleted uranium, are blocked by skin, while beta particles are blocked by the boots and battle dress utility uniform (BDUs) typically worn by Service members. While gamma rays are a form of highly-penetrating energy , the amount of gamma radiation emitted by depleted uranium is very low. Thus, depleted uranium does not significantly add to the background radiation that we encounter every day.
are you going to stop flying on an airplane now?
The UNEP report shows in particular that the risks to KFOR personnel of exposure to Depleted Uranium are negligible, and neither is there evidence of any harm to the civilian population. NATO has consistently stated that DU could only be a hazard under very specific, very limited circumstances, and this report emphasises how unlikely it is that our personnel, and the local population, will have been exposed to sufficient DU to suffer ill-effects.
THE MAIN ARGUMENT for continued use of depleted uranium in military hardware, civilian aircraft and many other industrial products is the fact that the DU is about 40 per cent less radioactive than the naturally-occurring uranium. Depleted uranium is also cheap and readily available. Furthermore, DU emits predominantly alpha radiation, which is quickly absorbed. How true are these claims? Fortunately, they are quite accurate. Available statistics shows that in the top 20 cm of soil collected from an area of 1 sq. km one may expect to find on the average of 1,000 kg of natural uranium, which is more radioactive than the depleted uranium. The depleted uranium emits low-level alpha radiation that is in fact quickly absorbed by the air. Furthermore, radioactive background created by depleted uranium falls far short from naturally-occurring radiation background in some places in Iran and Brazil, where we are not aware of people suffering from any illnesses caused by this high natural radioactive background.
The risk from external exposure is essentially zero, even when pure metal is handled. No detectable increases of cancer, leukaemia, birth defects or other negative health effects have ever been observed from radiation exposure to inhaled or ingested natural uranium concentrates, at levels far exceeding those likely in areas where DU munitions have been used. This is mainly because the low radioactivity per unit mass of uranium means that the mass needed for significant internal exposure would be virtually impossible to accumulate in the body – and DU is less than half as radioactive as natural uranium.
This position is well summarised in the concluding paragraph of a commentary by N D Priest on the "Toxicity of depleted uranium", published in The Lancet, Vol 357, January 27, 2001, which reads:
"It can be safely concluded that, at any conceivable level of uptake, depleted uranium will have no appreciable radiological or chemical carcinogenic potential. Moreover even if cancers were to be produced they would occur many years after intake, because the lag period between damage to the sensitive cells and the appearance of recognisable tumours. In man, for chronic irradiation from internally deposited alpha-emitting radionuclide, these latency periods would typically lie in the range of 10 years to several decades. In view of this latency, tumours in individuals exposed to depleted uranium for shorter periods - e.g. servicemen exposed to depleted uranium in the former Yugoslavia within the past decade - cannot be attributed to radiation from depleted uranium. Finally the only chemical toxic effect expected would be reversible damage to the kidney."
Comment by Elmers Brother— 2007/11/26 @ 08:41 AM — (Reply)
RADIATON TO DESTRY GOD?S CREATION! and good money for the rockefellers
Comment by Damjan— 2007/11/26 @ 08:51 AM — (Reply)
Comment by aza spade— 2007/11/26 @ 09:59 AM — (Reply)
Comment by Damjan— 2007/11/26 @ 11:45 AM — (Reply)
Comment by Dugg— 2007/11/26 @ 11:07 AM — (Reply)
Comment by Elmers Brother— 2007/11/26 @ 04:01 PM — (Reply)
Comment by Damjan— 2007/11/27 @ 05:27 AM — (Reply)
Comment by Damjan— 2007/11/27 @ 08:33 AM — (Reply)
Comment by aza spade— 2007/11/27 @ 09:31 AM — (Reply)
Comment by Dugg— 2007/11/26 @ 11:08 AM — (Reply)
Here's 1,850,000 links for DU War Crime in IRAQ
Comment by Dugg— 2007/11/26 @ 11:11 AM — (Reply)
1,850,000 to 1.
Comment by Dugg— 2007/11/26 @ 11:13 AM — (Reply)
Comment by Elmers Brother— 2007/11/26 @ 04:02 PM — (Reply)
Don't Worry! It's good for you!!!
Comment by Dugg— 2007/11/26 @ 11:22 AM — (Reply)
Comment by Dugg— 2007/11/26 @ 11:24 AM — (Reply)
that's just it Dugg you absorb this stuff into your body everyday and your body takes care of it
it occurs naturally and that naturally occurring uranium is 40 TIMES more radioactive than DU
Comment by Elmers Brother— 2007/11/26 @ 04:05 PM — (Reply)
Comment by Dugg— 2007/11/26 @ 04:08 PM — (Reply)
better watch out for that bird guano too...it's radioactive as well
it's just like when they banned DDT...it was a political decision not a scientific one and look at how many people have had to suffer and die from malaria
DDT was banned despite clear evidence that it did not pose a significant cancer risk
Comment by Elmers Brother— 2007/11/26 @ 04:42 PM — (Reply)
Comment by Damjan— 2007/11/26 @ 11:47 AM — (Reply)
Comment by aza spade— 2007/11/26 @ 02:58 PM — (Reply)
Comment by Damjan— 2007/11/27 @ 06:50 AM — (Reply)
Comment by aza spade— 2007/11/27 @ 09:34 AM — (Reply)
Comment by Damjan— 2007/11/27 @ 03:11 PM — (Reply)
Comment by aza spade— 2007/11/27 @ 10:01 AM — (Reply)
problem + reactin + solution
go lil' deeper and ask yourself why it is so as u described it. You may se that EVERYTHING in your REAL world is orcestrated!!!
Smell the coffee, as you would say it, ma friend.
Comment by Damjan— 2007/11/27 @ 03:18 PM — (Reply)
the other one belonged to universities and the UN
Why should I be ashamed of using logic, reason and my own personal experience?
How many raioactive isotopes have you worked with Dugg? and for how long?
I use an x-ray as an example so that you could understand the scale...something for which you have no clue
Comment by Elmers Brother— 2007/11/26 @ 04:00 PM — (Reply)
Comment by Dugg— 2007/11/26 @ 04:13 PM — (Reply)
perhaps it was Saddam...he actually used chemical weapons on his people
I'm not claiming to be an expert but at least I have some occupational experience
you have?????
Comment by Elmers Brother— 2007/11/26 @ 04:24 PM — (Reply)
Comment by Damjan— 2007/11/27 @ 02:46 AM — (Reply)
I was a qualified Radiation Worker in the Navy...when submarines came into port we took over the radiological controls for the reactor
I troubleshot, maintained and repaired radiation detection and indicating devices
We used DU to protect us from the radiation...as a shield.
It's used in airplanes and other equipment. Are you going to stop flying?
Due to its high density the main uses of depleted uranium include counterweights in aircraft, radiation shields in medical radiation therapy machines and containers for the transport of radioactive materials. The military uses depleted uranium for defensive armor plate and its pyrophoricity has made it a valued component in other military applications, particularly in the form of armour-piercing projectiles.
The director of the IAEA Seibersdorf Laboratory, Pier Roberto Danesi stated in 2002 that "There is a consensus now that DU does not represent a health threat". Former NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson has stated that "the existing medical consensus is clear. The hazard from depleted uranium is both very limited, and limited to very specific circumstances" A 1999 study conducted by the Rand Corporation stated: “No evidence is documented in the literature of cancer or any other negative health effect related to the radiation received from exposure to depleted or natural uranium, whether inhaled or ingested, even at very high doses”, and another RAND report considered the debate to be more political than scientific.
Of course the Illuminati is paying me to say all this (end sarcasm)
Comment by Elmers Brother— 2007/11/26 @ 04:22 PM — (Reply)
"Depleted uranium is more of a problem than we thought when it was developed. But it was developed according to standards and was thought through very carefully. It turned out, perhaps, to be wrong."
-- Brent Scowcroft, National Security Advisor to President George Bush in 1991 Gulf War .
According to a video titled "Using Depleted Uranium as a Weapon...Putting Our Troops and the Rest of the World at Risk", the US government began to experiment with Uranium-238, which is simply Uranium (http://www.ccnr.org/uranium_deadliest.html) waste, secretly as early as the 1970's before implementing it in the Gulf.
Depleted Uranium (DU) is a dense, radioactive metal used for armor-piercing shells. Some DU munitions have been found to contain traces of Plutonium, which is the most toxic substance we know of. Its half-life is approximately 4.5 billion years, meaning that in that amount of time half of it will have broken down. DU is ingested when soldiers or civilians come into contact with it.
Comment by Dugg— 2007/11/26 @ 04:38 PM — (Reply)
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Comment by Elmers Brother— 2007/11/26 @ 04:43 PM — (Reply)
Did they allow conjugal visits during the testing?
Comment by Elmers Brother— 2007/11/26 @ 04:46 PM — (Reply)
Comment by Dugg— 2007/11/26 @ 04:41 PM — (Reply)
Comment by Damjan— 2007/11/27 @ 02:47 AM — (Reply)
Comment by Ed— 2007/11/26 @ 06:04 PM — (Reply)
Symptoms of being affected by DU include achy joints, falling ill, developing rashes and memory loss. According to Paul Sullivan, President of the National Gulf War Resource Center, the residue from DU weapons settles in the bone, the lungs, kidneys and testicles. The most infamous example of the effects of DU is that it can be passed from the mother to the child and often causes abnormalities and other birth defects.
In the Basra General Hospital in Southern Iraq (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/iz.html) according to Dr. Anuar Abdul Mehsen, MD., the number of cancer cases he has seen in his hospital has increased significantly since the end of the Gulf War. In 1988 he saw 34 deaths caused by various types of cancer, and in 1988 there were 428 deaths caused by cancer. He adds that there is an average of 1-2 deformed babies born per day.
From 1991 to 2003, U.S. and British jets patrolled the No-Fly-Zones in Northern and Southern Iraq, often bombing Iraqi anti-aircraft sites that threatened them. These air strikes also involved DU munitions.
Comment by Dugg— 2007/11/26 @ 06:25 PM — (Reply)
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Comment by Damjan— 2007/11/27 @ 02:51 AM — (Reply)
I've asked them that before and never get an answer. You're trusting the wrong people, guys. They've been caught lying a thousand times - why keep believing them?
Thanks Damjan.
Comment by Dugg— 2007/11/27 @ 10:36 AM — (Reply)
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