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Box containing depleted uranium found
Fort Worth Star-Telegram ^
| 12/04/2007
| Star-Telegram Staff
Posted on 12/04/2007 3:26:24 PM PST by VRWCmember
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Maybe it's just me, but if I found a box that looked like this, I would definitely NOT take it to my house. I would probably call the Police and have them come check it out, but would not touch it and absolutely would not even think about taking it home with me.
To: VRWCmember
Looks like it’s right out of Ghostbusters.
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posted on
12/04/2007 3:28:09 PM PST
by
sierrahome
(Hillary Clinton "America's Ex-Wife")
To: VRWCmember
If it’s depleted, what’s the problem?................
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posted on
12/04/2007 3:29:11 PM PST
by
Red Badger
( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
To: VRWCmember
If this was being used as an X-ray source, I doubt it was "depleted uranium"--at least in the sense of the depleted uranium used in armor and ammunition.
Someone please correct me if I am wrong.
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posted on
12/04/2007 3:31:26 PM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
To: VRWCmember
Does this story smell like fish to anyone besides me?
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posted on
12/04/2007 3:33:44 PM PST
by
do the dhue
(They've got us surrounded again. The poor bastards. General Creighton Abrams)
To: VRWCmember
"Ooh, it has a radioactive sticker on it ... let me pick it up and put it next to the box of rocks that is my head," his wife imagined him saying.
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posted on
12/04/2007 3:34:44 PM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(Fred Dalton Thompson for President)
To: do the dhue
I just posts ‘em as I sees ‘em.
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posted on
12/04/2007 3:34:58 PM PST
by
VRWCmember
(Fred Thompson 2008! Taking America Back for Conservatives!)
To: sierrahome
To: VRWCmember
Yea, I know. It aint your fault. Just smells fishy to me.
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posted on
12/04/2007 3:39:05 PM PST
by
do the dhue
(They've got us surrounded again. The poor bastards. General Creighton Abrams)
To: sierrahome
Whatever you do, don’t cross the streams.
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posted on
12/04/2007 3:40:28 PM PST
by
VRWCmember
(Fred Thompson 2008! Taking America Back for Conservatives!)
To: Smokin' Joe
I think it’s not being used as an X-Ray source. The article states that it is used in the welds.
To: NonValueAdded
This guy was a home x-ray hobbyist. See he put the uranium under his pillow, then put the on the other side of his head. He checks to see if the aliens have inserted brain probes.
To: VRWCmember
Helen Thomas’ cosmetic case?
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posted on
12/04/2007 3:47:47 PM PST
by
Dionysius
(Jingoism is no vice.)
To: VRWCmember
Maybe it fell off a turnip truck?
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posted on
12/04/2007 3:48:16 PM PST
by
do the dhue
(They've got us surrounded again. The poor bastards. General Creighton Abrams)
To: molette67; NavyDude
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posted on
12/04/2007 3:51:46 PM PST
by
do the dhue
(They've got us surrounded again. The poor bastards. General Creighton Abrams)
To: EKrusling
They do use a radioactive source for taking x rays of welds. But not depleted uranium. The sources for metallurgical x rays are mighty strong. You wouldn’t want to be exposed to the beam.
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posted on
12/04/2007 3:51:51 PM PST
by
Nik Naym
(If Republicans are your problem, Democrats aren't the answer!)
To: VRWCmember
The person who took this device home took an enormous risk. This is a ‘camera’, a radiography source. It is a stainless steel container filled with depleted Uranium (DU).
The DU, while somewhat naturally radioactive, is actually the shielding for the extremely radioactive source that is stored inside. Most commonly, the source consists of up to 100 curies of Iridium-192.
The dose rates on contact with this source, while not immediately dangerous to life, are more than high enough to cause grave physical damage and illness in a very short period of time.
There are numerous incidents on record of these sources not being stored properly in the camera or actually becoming detached and loose.
Thankfully, this source seems to have remained inside the shield and the shield case intact.
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posted on
12/04/2007 4:02:23 PM PST
by
RoadGumby
(Ask me about Ducky)
To: Nik Naym
These sources can and do KILL. A simple web search can find pivtures of the damage they can do to the body. MOst of the sources are smaller than a finger tip inside the machine. The rest is shielding.
For example...SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR -- In February 1989, an accident took place at an industrial irradiation facility near San Salvador where medical products are sterilized by irradiation from a cobalt-60 source. The accident happened when the source rack became stuck in the irradiation position. The operator bypassed safety systems and entered the radiation room with two other workers to free the source rack manually. They were exposed to high radiation doses and developed acute radiation syndrome. The legs and feet of two of the three men were so seriously injured that amputation was required. The most-exposed worker died just over six months after the accident.
To: RoadGumby
What he said
To: VRWCmember
"But what's in the box???"
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posted on
12/04/2007 4:14:14 PM PST
by
weegee
(End the Bush-Bush-Bush-Clinton/Clinton-Clinton/Clinton-Bush-Bush-Clinton/Clinton Oligarchy 1980-2012)
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