Posted on 05/14/2023 2:41:22 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
“You don’t want American energy to replace corrupt Russian energy in Europe?”
How did Russian energy versus US energy inter into this? Are you really that retarded?
LOL, there is a radioactive landfill upstream of Bega in Hungary and radioactive waste deposits in Romania, but no it has to be caused by NATO. Moronic
In the Hungarian part of the Tisza river basin, there is a radioactive landfill at Puspokszilagy, upstream of the Zagyva River in the middle of the Tisza region. This site is consid- ered as a pollution “hot spot” by the Regional Inventory of Potential Accident Risk Spots in the Tisza Catchment Area conducted by the ICPDR (2000). There are also several radioactive waste deposits from uranium mining and milling in the Romanian section of the Tisza river basin. They include approximately 6 million m3 of waste rocks from ura- nium mining operations and two tailings ponds containing 6 million tons of wastes from uranium ore processing. Another environmental hazard is the storage at mining sites of low- grade ores with a uranium content of 0.02–0.05 percent, which is not currently processed. These deposits are all potential sources of surface and ground water contamination by radionuclide due to run off effluents and seepage. They are also responsible for airborne radiation resulting from the decay of radon gas released from the ore and dust, which is a health hazard for local inhabitants. These radioactive waste materials also are sometimes inadvertently used for building constructiion.
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An Alpha Ray is really a term for a stream of Alpha Particles.
Alpha Particles cannot penetrate the epidermis. However, if inhaled and the decay occurs inside your lungs, there is no protective epidermis which can stop it. Your lungs are easily damaged.
There are two types of particles that are generally involved in radioactive decay-Alpha and Beta particles.
To visualize how these particles are damaging, and how they are different, think of a bullet being shot into gelatin. When these various “bullets” (alpha or beta particles) penetrate human flesh or gelatin, they travel in a line, causing linear damage along their route. But when they come to a stop, they transmit all their remaining energy into the tissues surrounding where it comes to a stop.
A Beta particle is small, but has higher penetrating power. It can get through your skin, but because it is small (about 8000 times less massive than an Apha particle) it has a relatively small “sphere” of destruction. Think of firing a bullet the size of a pinhead which might weigh 4 milligrams (just guessing here) into that gelatin. It is going to be high velocity, will make a very small hole to penetrate, and when it stops, it will radiate damaging energy out a very small distance.
Now, think of a 75 caliber musket ball fired from a musket at low velocity. It weighs nearly 8,000 times as much as the head of a pin. But it travels far slower. When it hits, it may not penetrate as far as that Beta Particle head of a pin and might even be stopped by clothing (using an analogy here, clothing won’t stop stop a 75 caliber musket ball any more than the thin layer of skin stops an Alpha particle) but when it does penetrate into soft tissues, it doesn’t go nearly as far, but when it comes to a stop, it is HUGELY destructive, and the sphere of destruction is massive.
So, an Alpha Particle might not get through the thick skin, but if you inhale it (or eat it) and it gets emitted, there is no skin to stop it, just soft tissue to let it in and absorb it where all the damage will occur to your lungs or to your digestive tract, both of which are vulnerable to radiation damage.
You might have misinterpreted my post which I completely understand, since I have difficulty distilling my posts down.
I am saying the risk is so low as to be nearly non-existent, and that it is overblown for someone’s politcal purposes.
The fact that our troops have been handling depleted Uranium rounds for nearly forty years with zero deleterious effects is empirical proof of their safety.
(note that I only said generally two particles involved in decay. For example, there are also Positrons which are positively charged electrons.
Positrons have an extremely short life. When one is created by radioactive decay, it flies around in the atomic world until it flies too close to a negatively charged electron, its identical twin with the polar opposite charge.
When the positron and electron get close enough, they “capture” each other, and begin a dance of death that results in annihilation which converts both of them entirely to energy, resulting in two photons of radiation, each equal at 511 KeV that fly away from each other at exactly 180 degrees. (This is the basis of PET scanning (Positron Emission Tomography) in Medicine.
The dance of annihilation death for the two particles that get too close involves them capturing each other simultaneously, then they begin to spiral around each other, faster and faster, closer and closer, until they collide, annihilate and disappear, and throw off the two gamma radiation photons that fly away from each other.
And it happens it a time frame so small it is nearly indetectable. (I can’t remember how long a positron lives before it annihilates with some promiscuous electron it meets, but electrons are everywhere in everything, so...it doesn’t take long.
I have always found that fascinating.
Putin is a revanchist intent on building his empire on the backs of Ukrainian slaves. My interest is in America and Americans. That includes good American job producing exports to Europe that are needed now due to Russia’s unreliability as an energy partner for Europe. Frankly, I no idea what your interest is here. It’s certainly not MAGA and conservatism.
LOL - Latin Mass FR handles.
Insanity.
I agree. Such a waste.
Nothing constructive has come out of the Biden Administration. Just waste and destruction.
you should consider that it is possible nafo bot compensation may be in part tied to engagement. when you feed them, maybe they get paid more.
These threads are good for arguing with people who are paid to do it, but for any real discussion about this war you need to look elsewhere. somewhere with some sensible moderation,.
I don’t yearn for any more discussion about this war. And I don’t discuss it with these weird propagandists; I just call out their spammy B.S. regularly.
If you’ll notice, I give them a couple of rounds for my own entertainment and then extricate myself from their little webs. I recommend you and others do the same. Otherwise, they’ll keep slinging their false accusations, their lame insults and their circular “logic” in an attempt to keep you engaged all day if they can.
My method is to offer them the last word when they’ve become tiresome and then walk away. Works like a charm.
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