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In reply to the discussion: "There is more (weapons grade) material on civilian sites than all weapons stockpiles put together" [View all]txlibdem
(6,183 posts)17. False and you know it
Curies are given off as radioactive decay happens. Uranium is extremely long lived so it must, by the laws of physics, give off less radiation than a shorter lived substance. You know this yet you choose to attempt to fool the gullible on DU with a BS comparison??? tsk tsk.
You talk of explosions of nuclear reactors which give off short lived particles (and lots of curies for a very short time) as if the cumulative radiation from 57,000 pounds of NUCLEAR BOMB MATERIAL each year from each reactor is nothing but a flea, nothing to worry about.
You may state some facts but you twist those facts into a lie.
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"There is more (weapons grade) material on civilian sites than all weapons stockpiles put together" [View all]
bananas
Mar 2012
OP
DU, white phosporous and who can imagine what other nightmares were unleashed in Fallujah. nt
Mnemosyne
Mar 2012
#6
Weapons grade Uranium... 57,000 pounds of it come out of each coal plant each year
txlibdem
Mar 2012
#14
Why do you continue to spread what you know is deliberate nuclear industry propaganda?
kristopher
Mar 2012
#16
As far as I can tell, the OP concerns the possibility that significant quantities of HEU
struggle4progress
Mar 2012
#27
How long are you going to pretend that enrichment isn't a right of reactor ownership?
kristopher
Apr 2012
#34