23-04-2012, 06:13 AM
Ah......it is not clear from that article exactly what happened, but 'depleted' Uranium is a very special substance - with some very strange properties. One of them is that it oxidizes rapidly and with a lot of energy [easily started] when in contact with heat or other metals - forming Uranium oxide powder, which floats in the air, gets into water and spreads. It is, despite the name, radioactive - only less so than 'undepleted' Uranium. Looks as if they have a potentially horrible disaster on hand...... While alpha radiation is a little more difficult to measure than the others, this is a dodge, as modern radiation meters measure accurately all three types. You can't convince me they don't have some...especially if they had radioactives on site.
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass