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2003-05-10 Iraq

Iraqi looters exposed to radioactive materials

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Posted by Frank G 2003-05-10 09:48 am|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 One of the villagers who took part in the looting said he tasted the yellow powder in the drums because it looked pretty.

Maybe this dope would be interested in a little "hot lemonade"??

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 5/10/2003 11:50:00 AM|| 5/10/2003 11:50:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Mmmmmmmmm....yellow cake.

Posted by tu3031 2003-05-10 10:04:07|| 2003-05-10 10:04:07|| Front Page Top

#3 D'oh!

Posted by Bulldog 2003-05-10 10:29:23|| 2003-05-10 10:29:23|| Front Page Top

#4 One of the villagers who took part in the looting said he tasted the yellow powder in the drums because it looked pretty.

Maybe this dope would be interested in a little "hot lemonade"??

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-05-10 11:50:00|| 2003-05-10 11:50:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Yellow cake with white slag icing.

Yummmmmy.

Posted by Steve White 2003-05-10 15:01:15|| 2003-05-10 15:01:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Uranium Ore Concentrate (UOC) is dark green to black (depending on its moisture content). Ammonium di-Uranate is yellow (and is what gave rise to the name "yellow-cake"). The published figures on what was at Tuwaitha indicate that the UOC should have been green.

If the villagers ate something pretty and yellow it was probably sulphur (uranium processing facilities commonly have stocks of sulphur - used to manufacture sulphuric acid on site).

UOC is only about one tenth as radioactive as uranium at geologic equilibrium with its daughter products. In many cases UOC is less radioactive than the ore it is mined from (the daughter products end up in the ore residues rather than in the concentrate).

Most of what is being reported about Tuwaitha is simply not plausible or contains impossibilities/stupidities.

Posted by Russell 2003-05-11 03:07:01|| 2003-05-11 03:07:01|| Front Page Top

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