Depleted uranium situation getting worse.....

[marmar]

Depleted Uranium Situation Worsens
Submitted by davidswanson on Fri, 2006-07-28 19:33. Media
Depleted Uranium Situation Worsens Requiring Immediate Action By
President Bush, Prime Minister Blair, and Prime Minister Olmert
Dr. Doug Rokke, PhD., former Director, U.S. Army Depleted Uranium project
July 24, 2006

The delivery of at least 100 GBU 28 bunker busters bombs containing
depleted uranium warheads by the United States to Israel for use
against targets in Lebanon will result in additional radioactive and
chemical toxic contamination with consequent adverse health and
environmental effects throughout the middle east.

Today, U.S., British, and now Israeli military personnel are using
illegal uranium munitions- America's and England's own "dirty bombs"
while U.S. Army, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of
Defense, and British Ministry of Defence officials deny that there are
any adverse health and environmental effects as a consequence of the
manufacture, testing, and/or use of uranium munitions to avoid
liability for the willful and illegal dispersal of a radioactive toxic
material - depleted uranium.

The use of uranium weapons is absolutely unacceptable, and a crime
against humanity. Consequently the citizens of the world and all
governments must force cessation of uranium weapons use. I must demand
that Israel now provide medical care to all DU casualties in Lebanon
and clean up all DU contamination.

U.S. and British officials have arrogantly refused to comply with
their own regulations, orders, and directives that require United
States Department of Defense officials to provide prompt and effective
medical care to "all" exposed individuals. Reference: Medical
Management of Unusual Depleted Uranium Casualties, DOD, Pentagon,
10/14/93, Medical Management of Army personnel Exposed to Depleted
Uranium (DU) Headquarters, U.S. Army Medical Command 29 April 2004,
and section 2-5 of U.S. Army Regulation 700-48. Israeli officials must
not do so now.

The rest of the article is at: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/13350

[n2doc]

1. Somehow I get the feeling that this stuff

will be headed back to Israel somehow. And in a non-approved manner. I can't see the Lebanese taking this without some kind of response.

[marmar]

2. Scary thought....

And with responses come counter-responses and even more senseless death. The world's in a sorry state.

[deaniac21]

3. I wonder why they call it "depleted"?

[MadHound]

4. Because through it's former use in a reactor

It has expended most of its radioactivity. It is safe enough in solid form, it is an alpha and beta emitter, both of which can be blocked with either your skin or a piece of cloth. You can have a chunk of it in the same room with you for weeks and months and suffer no ill effects.

However when it is stuck on the end of a missle and is blown to dust, that dust is inhaled or ingested and the skin can no longer block the radiation, and being a heavy metal, it is toxic.

All in all it is a slow motion genocide that keeps on killing long after the war is done.

[Bretttido]

5. Thank you for the description, I never had a grasp as to how DU worked

[Bretttido]

6. What kind of emitter is the uranium used in reactors?

alpha + beta + ___?

[MadHound]

7. Gamma!

Gamma is the serious shit, where you start hauling out the lead, and ironically enough, the DU. DU is actually a great shield from radioactivity, denser than lead. Many radioactive products are transported about the country shielded from hurting the public by DU containers, including fuel rods.

DU has many civilian uses, including balast on planes and ships. The only real trouble with it is when it is used to tip a missle. That's when it starts killing people.

[Vincardog]

8. Doesn't it have some adverse effect on the ground watter supply?

[arcane1]

9. if it gets into the water as dust, and people drink it, yes

[Vincardog]

11. Like if it was used in a "Bunker Buster" in a desert environment?

I seem to have heard that cancer rates were going thru the roof in Iraq and Afghanistan.
You know where they have been firing DU shells for the last few years.

[formercia]

15. The atomized particles of Uranium Oxide

that are the result of the DU burning in contact with oxygen. One of the reason it is used in penetrators is that it ignites spontaneously when atomized on impact. Desert environments are worse because the dust is dispersed widely by the wind rather than settling.

There are other dense alloys that would make a good penetrator but DU is used because it is dense and is incendiary.

[formercia]

13. Not a byproduct of reactors

Depleted Uranium is a byproduct from the enrichment process. Natural Uranium is a mixture of isotopes, primarily U-238 and a small amount of the fissionable U-235.

Here's a great site that will tell you all about it.

There are approximately 700,000 tons of depleted uranium held in stockpiles.

DU penetrators are only a few of the many uses that the US Government has to get rid of its stockpile.

Why pay for storage when you can contaminate the Planet

Fearless Leader's war on TERRA.

http://web.ead.anl.gov/uranium/
The Depleted UF6 Management Information Network Web Site is an online repository of information about the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) inventory of depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6), a product of the uranium enrichment process. The site informs the public and other stakeholders about:

* uranium, depleted uranium (DU) and DUF6,
* research and development efforts for beneficial uses of DU,
* DOE's program for management of its DUF6 inventory, and
* public involvement opportunities.

Note: Records of Decision and Final DUF6 Conversion Facility EISs are available for downloading/browsing.


Just another facet in the Zionist Xtian scenario for the End of Times and Rapture. Sorry, only Xtians allowed.

[Nothing Without Hope]

10. Here's the decay pathway for depleted uranium:

http://www.ccnr.org/decay_U238.html



More info on the deliberate use of depleted uranium::
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1489246
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1529415

[OneBlueSky]

12. depleted uranium "will slowly annihilate all species on the planet" . . .

"The use of depleted uranium weaponry by the United States, which defies all international treaties, will slowly annihilate all species on the planet including the human species, and yet this regime continues to contaminate the atmosphere with depleted uranium with full knowledge of its destructive potential."

War Crimes and World Domination

http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2006/06/21/war_crimes_and_world_domination

(snip)

The Bush regime has broken virtually every one of the Geneva Conventions. They have committed crimes for which there are not yet laws written. Crimes against the earth and the environment. His father before him was the first to use depleted uranium weapons, but the son, Dubya, has far exceeded the senior Bush, by spreading over 1000 metric tons of the deadly U238-isotope, America’s nuclear waste, over Iraq and Afghanistan, making childhood leukemia and spontaneous abortions commonplace, dooming the people of both countries to endless suffering and premature death. According to a UN Sub Commission report, cancer in Iraq has increased 1000%, and deformities 600%. Depleted Uranium has rendered Iraqi lands infertile, entered the food chain, and contaminated the ground water. With a half-life of 4.5 billion years the Uranium 238 dropped on Iraq and Afganistan by Bush and his father have rendered much of the two countries permanently unfit for human habitation.

Depleted uranium bombs are pyroplastic in nature, which means the substance ignites on impact. When it burns it actually changes at a molecular level, losing its solid form as it instantly turns in to a fine dust. It migrates into the ground water and is taken up into the air and blown by the wind. Although the dust is most concentrated in Europe and areas near the Iraq occupation, some of the deadly airborne depleted uranium reaches the upper atmosphere and is circulated by the jet stream and distributed over the entire surface of the earth. The use of depleted uranium weaponry by the United States, which defies all international treaties, will slowly annihilate all species on the planet including the human species, and yet this regime continues to contaminate the atmosphere with depleted uranium with full knowledge of its destructive potential.

On June 17, 2006 Austrian right-wing populist Joerg Haider, who is part of Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel's government coalition, called President Bush a war criminal. Haider said in an interview with Austrian daily newspaper Die Presse: "He is a war criminal. He brought about the war against Iraq deliberately, with lies and falsehoods, The Iraqi population is suffering terribly. Bush took the risk of an enormous number of victims."

- more . . .

http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2006/06/21/war_crimes_and_world_domination

[Swamp Rat]

14. k&r

The USA, Israel, Russia, China, India, North Korea, Iran, Great Britain... we are ALL poisoning the entire Earth.