Living with 75 tons of depleted uranium in Gaza »
Posted By rumple4skin 7 months ago in Health & FitnessMay 25, 2009
Gaza is littered with the depleted uranium Israel uses to strengthen its warheads. Now there will be many children born with deformities and even more precious land beyond human habitation or farming. The Israeli attacks of late December and January are the culprit.
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beavith17 months ago
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people.
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DU has had the fissionable U235 removed leaving the less radioactive U238 behind.
DU is LESS radioactive than natural uranium.
deformities? radiation poisoning? you're being played.
now. if you wanted to complain about the chemical toxicity of uranium, its about as toxic as lead, so it does pose a health hazard, but about as much as a bullet would, very little as a bulk solid, more as the oxide.-
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bubba27 months ago
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You are wrong, and you are the one "playing" others by erroneously suggesting that DU is not harmful.
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http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/view/1055/...
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42762
http://ivaw.org/dufactsheet
http://www.truthout.org/article/depleted-uranium-h...
http://www.bandepleteduranium.org/
http://fanonite.org/2008/06/07/the-doctor-the-depl...
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djn3nunez37 months ago
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Although, DU is 60 % less radioactive than natural uranium because U-234 and U-235 which emit gamma rays and beta particles have been removed Depleted uranium or uranium 238 is still very dangerous as an internal hazard because the alpha particle emissions are not reduced but proportionally increased. Also spent penetrators or parts of penetrators emit at 300 mrem/ hour and thus can not be touched or picked up without protection.
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http://www.iacenter.org/depleted/duupdate.htm
You are correct about the chemical toxicity of DU. No one knows what effect it will have in twenty years. We'll see in Iraq and in Gaza because somehow I don't think there are any cleanups underway...... -
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Justice4All7 months ago
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"We should all be disgusted by the fact that the United States produced and sold these weapons to Israel."
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Most of us are disgusted. But there a few who are very vocal who think this is OK because it's all the fault of the Palestinians. -
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Thinker227 months ago
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> The palistinians are treated not unlike the Jews were treated under Germany's nazi regime.
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You mean that most of them are already dead and those still alive are locked in camps waiting to be exterminated? If this is the case you should look for better sources of information, my friend.
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nostalgia7 months ago
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I don't seem to recall ANY outrage on the left when these reports began to surface
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Depleted uranium 'threatens Balkan cancer epidemic'
A British scientist says the Americans' use of depleted uranium weapons in the war with Serbia is likely to cause 10,000 extra deaths from cancer
He said there had been evidence in other parts of the Balkans of elevated radiation levels during and soon after the war with Serbia.
In mid-June scientists at Kozani in northern Greece were reporting that radiation levels were 25% above normal whenever the wind blew from the direction of Kosovo.
And Bulgarian researchers reported finding levels eight times higher than usual within Bulgaria itself, and up to 30 times higher in Yugoslavia.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/408122.stm
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