are geiger counters used on the bodies at Dover?

[donsu]

and are the 'transfer tubes' radiation tight? (are they really tubes? who makes them? who has seen them?) and if the bodies/tubes have too much radiation - how is that handled? what are the families told?

[soothsayer]

1. why would they be radioactive?

from the depleted uranium weapons we use? i'm confused

[donsu]

2. yes, the DU plus the looting of the nuke plant, etc.

after each battle, each explosion, the troops are supposed to do nose swabs to see if they got too much. this is not being done. Clinton charged the VA to see to this after Gulf War I.

[Superfly]

3. Get a grip....

"Uranium-238 becomes DU, which is 0.7 times as radioactive as natural uranium."

That means it's LESS radioactive than even natural U

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/du.htm

[donsu]

5. not after it explodes and turns to dust

nt

[dfong63]

9. don't believe everything you read

some of the "depleted" uranium has been found not to be depleted at all, and contaminated with plutonium.

furthermore, even if "depleted" uranium really is less radioactive than natural uranium - don't forget that natural uranium can give you cancer too. and both are chemically toxic.

[TXvote]

10. 500 X a grip

that's why Major Doug Rokke , formerly in charge of troops safety in Gulp War I , is now pissing 500x the allowable limit of radioactivity, cuz it's soooooo safe.

http://www.yesmagazine.org/25environmentandhealth/rokke.htm

Wake up darlin, we are glowing in the dark.

[soothsayer]

4. hmm, i see. I only am aware of Dover x-raying the bodies looking for

unexploded ordinance.

[Pale_Rider]

6. I doubt that the shipping caskets are radiation tight since ...

... they are made of aluminum.


http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/7340697.htm

[dfong63]

8. interesting, thanks for posting the link

among other things, the article refers to the xfer cases as "ice-packed". i didn't know that.

[dfong63]

7. according to news articles, the xfer tubes are made of aluminum

and although i'm not a physicist, i'm pretty sure aluminum would not be effective in stopping the neutrons released by the decay of uranium and its daughter products.

[donsu]

11. "daughter products" - please leave females out of anything nuclear

how about "son products"

[Throckmorton]

14. How about Fission Products inventory then.

Honestly

[Throckmorton]

13. screw the neutrons buddy,

its the Gamma Photons that are the real threat.

[Throckmorton]

12. No,

They pass thru sintilation counters instead.