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Is Fallujah a town in lower Puna? I'm not familiar with it.I live in Kapoho and would be worried if Fallujah were near Kapoho.
And the fact remains that DU is only mildly radioactive.
I have a 20 lb chunk of it left over from my years of working as an aircraft mechanic.We used it for bucking bars to buck rivet heads and it also makes a really good dead blow hammer for beating the heck out of something that won't come apart.
Too bad I will be off island on the day of the Demystifying.
I would love to bring by for show and tell.
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Originally posted by hereonearth
I felt a bit awkward making those comments my first post, only to be ridiculed. I think the banana radiation bit would be cold comfort to the mothers in Fallujah. Did any of you even google it to see the images, or the video? Personally it was heartwrenching to me. I know we are surrounded by radiaton, granite countertops for instance. I have formica- probably full of formaldehyde!
Except that the birth defects caused by DU are primarily due to its toxicity, not radioactivity (as an aside, it's kind of bizarre to have a picture of an exploding phosphorus shell illustrating an article on DU). Also, there is likely more formaldehyde in your blood (it's a natural product of metabolism) than you'll absorb from formica.
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And Bullwinkle, those up to out of date releases about Fukushima are awful! The people of Japan are, and will continue to be, those most affected by this tragedy.
Fixed.
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I felt a bit awkward making those comments my first post, only to be ridiculed. I think the banana radiation bit would be cold comfort to the mothers in Fallujah.
The birth defects are because of a lack of Folic acid.It can be consumed in many forms but in a war zone most of those fresh sources are destroyed.In the USA women are encouraged to take folic acid supplements to prevent birth defects.
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Bullwinkle - I still don't understand the connection between depleted uranium on the Big Island and Fukushima. Maybe I'm missing something.
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hereonearth, I was not ridiculing you. I was pointing out that you were mistaken. If someone does that to me I feel enlightened, not ridiculed.
What do birth defects in Fallujah have to do with the (lack of) radioactivity of depleted uranium?
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You know, there's one thing that puzzles me about this, and I'm going back to the original post by Silverpenny10.
The Big Island, and especially Hilo, has a relatively high abundance of physicists, astrophysicists and astronomers, many of whom have taken advanced courses in nuclear physics. In other words they know a little more about radiation than the regular person on the street.
Now, perhaps you're wondering why these people, after learning about the tragedy in Japan, haven't evacuated the Big Island? Well, that's not what I'm going to ask. What I will ask is why, given these people give talks to the public at 'Imiloa and there's a massive collection of scientists within a few hundred yards of that place and most with a knowledge of nuclear physics, is the talk not being given there?
Instead it's at the Keaau community center somewhere behind the police station.
Just curious.
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Now, if there were no DU at Pohakuloa as the military previously claimed; no independent testing had been allowed; and bananas are more radioactive than DU, then the military had been lying all along but only got their hands slapped, and bananas are in violation; thus, banana growers should be fined.
http://www.westhawaiitoday.com/sections/...leted.html
HILO -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has wrapped up its investigation of depleted uranium at Pohakuloa Training Area and Schofield Barracks by issuing a "Notice of Violation. The notice, issued Monday, states a Security Level III violation occurred, for which the base civil penalty is $3,500."
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Obie, I am familiar with lack of folic acid causing deformities, and certainly it can not be ruled out as causing some of the birth defects, but DU is not questioned as to whether or not it causes birth defects either.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16124873
and Tom, I believe this is completely relevant to the discussion of radiation because we are all exposed to it whether it be from the sun, the dentist, the recent fallout from Fukushima or above ground nuclear testing in the 70's, or grandma's granite countertop. I didn't see in the original post that we were just discussing DU.
