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Somebody tell the media, enriched uranium can fuel a "dirty bomb" too

Posted on 02/15/2006 9:18:35 AM PST by 7thOF7th

Has the media forgotten the danger of dirty bombs? Who is keeping track of the quantities of enriched uranium being produced? This situation has reached a point of ACTION! A dirty bomb can go off anywhere and Israel is the closest target. The Media continues to feed the masses with their reporting dived out through "sippy straw" myopic lenses. They only mention the threat from the context of a nuclear bomb. Is the concern over Iran's enrichment predicated on development of a nuclear bomb? NOT! A dirty bomb is just as dangerous as a fission bomb. If it occurs the land will be "scorched" with no habitation except the cockroaches. Iran and their fanatical leaders could care less about the land, they are intent on killing Jews at any cost! NATO Must Act Now!


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KEYWORDS: dirtybomb; enricheduranium; gwot; iran; irannukes

1 posted on 02/15/2006 9:18:36 AM PST by 7thOF7th
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To: 7thOF7th
A dirty bomb is just as dangerous as a fission bomb.

--no, it's not--

2 posted on 02/15/2006 9:22:33 AM PST by rellimpank (Don't believe anything about firearms or explosives stated by the mass media---NRABenefactor)
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With half-life of 710 million years, U235 is an extremely poor choice of a material for a dirty bomb. Too long-lived [and thus too weakly radioactive]for such a use.
3 posted on 02/15/2006 9:28:12 AM PST by GSlob
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To: GSlob
Uranium and associated decay products thorium-230 and radium-226 will remain hazardous for thousands of years.

U235 enriched to a 20%-50% mix with U238 will render the surface area it settles on inhabitable for centuries
4 posted on 02/15/2006 9:47:03 AM PST by 7thOF7th (Righteousness is our cause and justice will prevail!)
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To: 7thOF7th
Has the media forgotten the danger of dirty bombs?

I give 'em a pass cuz I can't even remember breakfast.

5 posted on 02/15/2006 9:48:04 AM PST by Lazamataz (Islam is a fatal disease that must be eradicated from the body Earth.)
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To: 7thOF7th

All these products would come to equilibrium concentration quite a few years [geological time scale] down the road. Freshly concentrated U-235 does not have them.


6 posted on 02/15/2006 10:10:24 AM PST by GSlob
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