U.S. Importing 6,700 Tons of Radioactive Sand From Kuwait

[babsbunny]

http://www.tdn.com/articles/2008/04/29/area_news/doc4816651072f72767559743.txt

Crews moving contaminated sand from ship to rail
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 9:07 PM PDT
By Erik Olson

Longshoremen should finish unloading 6,700 tons of sand contaminated with depleted uranium and lead Tuesday afternoon, said Chad Hyslop, spokesman for the disposal company American Ecology.

The BBC Alabama arrived at the port Saturday afternoon with the 306 containers carrying the contaminated sand from Camp Doha, a U.S. Army base in Kuwait. The sand was packaged in bags designed to transport hazardous waste.

Longshoremen unloaded the containers in two shifts Sunday, then two more Monday, Hyslop said. They wore standard safety gear, and dust protection equipment and respirators were available, he said.

However, no one has opted to wear the respirators, he said.

“It’s gone real smooth,” Hyslop said.

Half of the containers will be loaded onto 76 rail cars and transported to an American Ecology disposal site in Idaho. The other half will remain at the port until the trains return to haul them to Idaho. The containers all will be at the disposal site in Idaho within 15 to 30 days, Hyslop said.

State Department of Health personnel are at the port to test radiation levels and to ensure none of the sand spills, Hyslop said. U.S. Customs agents also were on hand to inspect the cargo, he said.

[movonne]

1. WTF....

[Hydra]

2. OMG!!!

:mad:

That's gonna come straight through my state!

I didn't vote for depleted uranium rounds- and now I get radioactive sand?

What a world.

[CottonBear]

3. "However, no one has opted to wear the respirators, he said." WTF?

:wtf:

[Bozita]

9. Is this a macho thing? Has nobody learned anything from the hell that followed 9/11 at Ground Zero?

[lovuian]

12. Ship it to Paraguay where Bush is retiring

that would be a nice beach for him

[coriolis]

4. jeezus...talk about getting sandbagged

:eyes: :shrug: :grr:

[lonestarnot]

5. Fucking nice.

[lovuian]

6. Well first off this says how dangerous Depleted Uranium is

this is just sand and not opting to use respirators...OMG if they work for you then you MAKE them or FIRE them

Now I'm just wondering is the shipload really going to Idaho

or is it going to Miami to replenish their eroding coastline...

get my drift here

Kuwait and Iraq are so contaminated with depleted Uranium ...there going to need more sand bags


the point here is WE SHOULD NEVER HAVE USED DU IN THE FIRST PLACE


and Congress is responsible for this also

Afghan is looking at did we use Depleted Uranium without tellling them

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KE3G_Eg9JUU
DU fired in Mid East may claim more lives than Hiroshima

http://youtube.com/watch?v=z6ozjpooYYg

Poison is their favorite weapon against mankind

[pleah]

7. OMFG!

:wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow:

[NoPasaran]

8. Damn, I remember when we could make our own radioactive sand

Another American industry gone offshore!

[crimsonblue]

10. It has to go somewhere...

plus I'm looking forward to mutant potatoes... maybe they'll be like Veggie Tales.

[lovuian]

11. Did Kuwait object to depleted Uranium

so that tells you Depleted Uranium is dangerous