By the Russians?
Posted on 05/14/2023 2:41:22 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
On Saturday, during a massive air and missile raid on Ukraine, Russian forces hit a ammunition depot in Khmelnytsky, in the western part of the country, causing gigantic explosions in the site.
Intel Slava reported:
“It is worth noting that panic reports are spreading in Ukrainian social networks that during the detonation of an ammunition depot in Khmelnytsky, a large batch of British tank ammunition with depleted uranium, which was recently brought to Ukraine along with Storm Shadow missiles, was also destroyed. As a result of a huge explosion, particles of depleted uranium could be dispersed on the territory of the Khmelnytsky region, which, taking into account the experience of Yugoslavia and Iraq, could lead to an outbreak of cancer in the medium term.”
It didn’t take long for the results of the impact to be measurable scientifically.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
You might want to compare your Depleted Uranium source with the long link I posted at Comment #80.
Answer: Etcumspiritutuo
Lolol!
Enjoy your lonely echo chamber then. SMH.
Uh no, it doesn't work that way.
Neocon lie.
“Now you’re advocating for submission and slavery.”
You are advocating submission and slavery to Ukraine. Why?
“This is nonsense”
Deplete Uranium rounds are highly toxic when pulverized into dust, as the article points out.
Why do you insist on lying about such things?
Correcting headline: Gamma Radiation Spikes in the Region’s Atmosphere
Depleted Uranium emits Alpha particles, not Gamma
That said, the key thing from that Wikipedia link that jumped out at me is: "...DU is about 60% as radioactive as natural uranium..."
Natural Uranium is not very radioactive at all, IIRC. (I used to work with and handle nuclear isotopes, but it has been a few decades now) You can even walk around in a Uranium mine without protection and be at little risk because the presence of U-235 is less than half a percent of the total Uranium istopes existing in nature (U-238) which is why we hear the word "centrifuges" lot in various non-proliferation endeavors. They have to refine the Uranium ore and process it in special centrifuges that separate the fissile U-235 from the largely benign U-238 (which does have alpha emitters, but its half life is so long (Seven Hundred and Four Million Years) it isn't considered to be especially dangerous, again, unless you inhale it and are spending a LOT of time around the ore, and even then.
Given the depleted uranium is only 60% percent as radioactive as uranium ore, that brings the radioactivity level down even more, and because it is part and parcel of a solid uranium round, it isn't in its gaseous form.
On top of all that-if a magazine of these depleted uranium rounds went up in smoke, unless you are in the dense smoke, you are still at low risk. The non-radioactive smoke will be far, far more harmful than any puff of air floating around carrying an alpha emitter with a half life of Seven Hundred and Four Million Years.
Granted...there is no "threshold level" for exposure to radiation, which if you stay below that level you won't get cancer. One magic bullet of an alpha particle in your lungs could theoretically cause cancer, but...so could that one photon of Gamma radiation that passes through you.
In my opinion, it is being intentionally overblown to scare people. And Radiation does that to people, even normally sensible ones, because it is mysterious, you cannot taste it, and you cannot smell it. (Of course, the same could be said for a deadly virus too, and the people pushing both this narrative and the COVID narrative know that quite well.
Maybe you should do some homework...
Radioactivity of the Bega sediment—case study of a contaminated canal
Radioactivity of the Bega sediment—case study of a contaminated canal I Bikit, E Varga, L Čonkić, J Slivka, D Mrđa… - Applied Radiation and …, 2005 - Elsevier The Bega canal is one among many heavily polluted canals in Vojvodina (the northern province of Serbia and Montenegro). In the framework of the revitalization of this canal, the radionuclide content of the sediment was investigated in order to support the safe deposition after excavation. It was found that, in comparison with the Danube sediment and Vojvodina soil, the Bega sediment is contaminated with 238U and 137Cs. The origin of this contamination is discussed. No traces of contamination by nuclear power plants in the region were found.
By the Russians?
Your obsession with the Russians is childish stupidity. I didn’t ask about Russia. I asked why are you demanding the United States and her taxpayers be so subservient to the Ukraine.
Your question is a silly non sequitur.
Thank you for that. Very informative.
Alpha particles emitted by Depleted Uranium cannot penetrate skin. You must be thinking of Alpha Rays which are quite different.
Countless thousands of tankers have sat in close proximity and handled depleted Uranium shells - not to mention the workers who made and assembled Abrams’ Depleted Uranium armor. They did not get sick they did not die.
If so, there’s no radioactive warning signs around that ammunition.
Serbia has a cancer rate of 291.6 per 100,000 and Slovakia has a cancer rate of 290.4 per 100,000. Please point out when Slovakia got hit with depleted Uranium. Moronic
https://www.wcrf.org/cancer-trends/global-cancer-data-by-country/
You don’t want American energy to replace corrupt Russian energy in Europe? Why don’t you want those good American jobs?
Did President Trump have an “obsession with Russia” when he sanctioned Nordstream2 and campaigned for American energy exports to Europe?
The only “obsession with Russia” here is from broken and defeated conservatives who day dream that Putin’s Russia can win for them. Making Russia Great Again has never been in the interest of patriotic conservative Americans. End of story.
Maybe they weren’t actually ‘DEPLETED’.....................
“Your question is a silly non sequitur.”
You don’t know what a “non sequitur” is, son. Trying to say what you didn’t doesn’t absolve you of explaining why you think the US taxpayer should be funding the Ukraine.
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