Stop the hysteria. 90 lbs of unenriched Uranium in boxes is no more deadly to you or the environment than it is before it is mined.
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Stop the hysteria. 90 lbs of unenriched Uranium in boxes is no more deadly to you or the environment than it is before it is mined.
The ensuing panic is the problem.
What happens when it ceases to be in boxes and instead becomes a fine airborne particulate dispersed over a city? Is it deadly then?
Exactly. U-238 isn’t really the problem the media is trying to make it out as. Now if they had stolen some plutonium, or gotten into some nuclear waste with some long half-life gamma emitters, then all this hoopla would be justified.
....if you wanna believe whoever’s telling us that it’s unenriched.
How do you know it’s unenriched? Medical uranium may not have the purity of the atom bomb, but it is still radioactive. Nobody is talking about an atom-bomb of the level of Hiroshima, but that doesn’t mean it’s not dangerous.
The point of a dirty bomb is that they use explosives to disperse radioactive material.
Only if it is irradiated in a nuclear reactor or particle accelerator to produce radioactive fission products, or mixed with some highly radioactive materials. In fact, "low grade (uranium) material" possibly could be describing ore (rocks from the ground) containing < 0.10% natural uranium.
This story is being hyped (or spin-doctored) way out of proportion. Why?
Except that what they use in HOSPITALS is not UNENRICHED URANIUM.
That’s small potatoes for Obama. He’s got Iran making the big boys for his Islamo minions. Then in 2017 a Republican will become POTUS and will be reading a book to school kids when New York city and Washington gets nuked, and liberals will say “Ah ha! It’s all his fault! He was reading a book to school kids!”