Please help defend the U.S. Armed Forces in Hawaii against the NRC and the anti-military crowd !

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has joined Kanaka Maoli, and other community representatives in criticizing the Army’s radiation monitoring plan for Depleted Uranium (DU) contamination at the Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA) in the center of Hawai’i Island.

In an article written by Alan D. McNarie for the Big Island Weekly –”NCR to ARMY: DU Monitoring Plan Won’t Work” the NRC said: “We have concluded that the Plan will provide inconclusive results for the U.S. Army as to the potential impact of the dispersal of depleted uranium (DU) while the Pohakuloa Training Area is being utilized for aerial bombardment or other training exercises,” wrote Rebecca Tadesse, Chief of the NRC’s Materials Decommissioning Branch, in a recent letter to Lt. General Rick Lynch, who heads the Army’s Installation Management Command.

The article went on to say “The Army’s handling of the DU issue at Pohakuloa is also drawing fire from some independent experts, including retired army doctor Lorrin Pang, Los Alamos National Laboratory consultant Dr. Marshall Bland, and Dr. Michael Reimer, a retired geologist with a background in radiation monitoring. And Sierra Club researcher Cory Harden has used recently released Army documents to challenge the Army’s own estimates of how much DU may have been released into the environment at Pohakuloa.

“The NRC review seems to vindicate Dr. Pang and myself for claiming that the monitoring was insufficient,” Reimer told BIW.

Dr. Reimer said, “Five-micron size [particles] would fall out within a mile. Smaller sizes may be carried by the wind.” He recommended .45-micron instead of 5 micron filters to detect radiation possibly moving off base. Someone compared the Army’s flawed efforts to using tennis rackets to catch BBs. Others say that reported cancer clusters down wind of PTA need to be investigated further.

I am appealing to Freepers who have any experience with , or contacts within the NRC to see if you can clarify of confirm the information that our local , relentless , military haters are trying to purvey out here . We need your help! Members of Free Republic have 'busted' many a deceitful left wing strategy in the past ; I call upon your HELP! with this one now . If you will go to the website given , you will see that the outcome they seek is to convince the State of Hawaii to pull the State Leases on 100% critical training area lands , the Pohakuloa Training Area [PTA] , which is the largest ground training area in the entire Pacific Region . It is in nearly constant use by all Services ; Army , Marine Corps , Navy and Air Force . It is vital in the GWoT . And yet , with the possible election of a far leftwing Democrat for Hawaii Governor in November (former Rep Neil Abercrombie) these pinheads may actually stand a chance of pulling this off .

We need you help to ascertain if the NRC position they are crowing about here is factual or tiled with their disinformation spin ?

Your Freeper assistance is greatly appreciated , in advance !

“The Army stated to the Dept of Health Environmental Chief that inhaled DU (from exploding weaponry) was not a worry since DU is heavier than air and would not become airborne, therefore not inhaled…”

The Army is killing itself with quotes like these.

>>“The Army stated to the Dept of Health Environmental Chief that inhaled DU (from exploding weaponry) was not a worry since DU is heavier than air and would not become airborne, therefore not inhaled…”
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>The Army is killing itself with quotes like these.

Dust is heavier than air, which is why it collects on things... according to the Army I can’t inhale it.

People with dust allergies may rest easy knowing this.
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