doing on the quiet gets my vote. If you live near a reactor you need your own detection gear. That also includes people fabbing batteries for space (plutonium thermopiles). I guarantee mum is the word as liability is huge. Kirk
Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Andy I wonder what happened to the US plans to recycle radioactive nuclear wastes into common household appliances like kitchen cutlery and babies' prams and so on? The proposals came up a couple of times. Did they just drop it or are they going ahead without telling anybody? Similar sort of insanity to industry's "reycling" thousands of tons of hazwastes - lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury and so on - as fill for fertiliser, which US farmers happily spread on their fields to grow their food crops. All perfectly legal too. >The fact that it pollutes the immediate area, its users as well as anyone in >the area of its firing is not important to the US Government, nor will it >ever be. I'm sure you're right about that. :-( Best Keith >Here in Florida we have 'gypsum stacks' which are huge piles of ... Gypsum a >by-product from the processing of phosphate to "fertilizer". It is somewhat >(very low level) radio-active, and as such cannot be used for road beds, >construction etc. I'll bet that DU is stronger, and worse for the imbibers. >And excreted or not, we are seeing high rates of deformities in babies in >Afghanistan, Iraq, (where the DU is used) and among returning soldiers' >families as well. >DU is a great way to dispose of waste products that normally would not be >allowed to be disposed of most places in the US. Why not make it into >munitions (yes, its high density makes it a perfect armor piercing weapon). >The fact that it pollutes the immediate area, its users as well as anyone in >the area of its firing is not important to the US Government, nor will it >ever be. > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >Chip Mefford >Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 1:32 PM >To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org >Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Depleted Uranium Shells Used by U.S. Military Worse >Than Nuclear Weapons > >Chip Mefford wrote: >> Craig Barrett wrote: >>> Hmmmm... while DU may be dangerous, this article doesn't help much with >the >>> way it's written - poor use of statistics, no references to support its >>> claims. It's exactly this kind of shoddy work that causes the raising of >>> the skeptical eyebrow at those who're fighting against things like DU. >This >>> is a real pity because I think it hampers what might otherwise be a >really >>> good cause. >> >> Wholly agreed. > > >SNIP > >I kinda want to change my language, but it's already posted, so I'll >just add my after-thoughts. > >Point, my use of 'non-issue' just doesn't feel right. But it really >does seem that the who has really played this down. > >Point. I agree with the basic premise of the original article. >However, this statement "The genetic future of the Iraqi people, for the >most part, is destroyed. The environment now is completely radioactive." >I've read before, elsewhere, I can't substantiate it. >Against the background radiation of other areas in the region, yeah, >it's up a bit. And it's my feeling/opinion, that a 'bit' is a huge >amount, but with what passes for 'expertise' in these areas, folks >seem to think that's okay, when going for health expert citations. >See the who report I linked earlier. > >yes, I think that service folks are paying a terrible price, and the >people of the area we all call Irag are paying a staggeringly price >orders of magnitude above. > >This is all happening whether there is 'consensus' by us or not. >Uranium is just fine, left in the ground, in it's natural state, >unrefined, and not touched, the way it should be. Doing anything >else with it, is just insane. That's my take. > >Proving that, otoh, has proven to be pretty difficult. _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20080522/323751ca/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
