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From: Bill Smirnow
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Cc: Bill Smirnow
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 10:18 AM
Subject: [du-list] NYC, PENTAGON AREA MAY BE RADIOACTIVE
The or a possible cause of what's being called "World Trade Center
Syndrome" might be from the DU on the Sept. 11 airplanes[Depleted Uranium]
that may have caught fire[probably].
Has anyone done and/or is anyone interested in getting out their
Radalert or other rad monitoring device and measuring and testing radiation
levels at:
1. Near The Former World Trade Center[In Manhattan or any of the
other 4 NYC boroughs and Northern New Jersey]
2. Near The Pentagon
3. At or Near Shanksville, Pennsylvania where Flight 93 crashed?
From: "Leuren Moret" <leurenmoret@yahoo.com:
On Sept. 11, I called a medical doctor who lives 7 miles from the
Pentagon and warned her
that DU could have burned in the hijacked jets that crashed (up
to 3000 pounds were used in 747's). She turned on her gamma meter
- radiation levels were 8 times higher than normal inside her house.
She informed the Nuclear Information ResourceService in Washington
DC[Phone: 202-328-0002], and the EPA, FBI, HazMat and other emergency response
gencies went to the Pentagon to investigate.
A pile of rubble from the crash was radioactive, but the EPA
rep said "oh... it's probably depleted uranium... it's not a health hazard
unless you breathe it". Firefighters, Pentagon personel, and communities
nearby DID BREATHE IT. There was no followup investigation, and what
about the World Trade Center in NY? Radiation almost never gets into
the media. It is a taboo subject.
From: "Dr. H. D. Sharma"
<hdsharma@golden.net>[Physicist]
It does not matter whether the planes that hit the World-Trade Towers
and the Pentagon have DU or not as long as DU does not catch fire. If DU
catches fire -- most likely it will just like in the case of the
El-Al plane that caught fire outside Amsterdam
(Netherland), it will form aerosols of uranium dioxide. Inhalation
of the aerosols can be harmful to human health depending on the quantity
inhaled.
The presence of aerosols can be checked with the help of a simple
radiation survey meter. Such meters are readily available and the site
near the Towers should be checked for gamma-ray emitters as soon as possible.
If you do not see any radiation from adioisotopes of thorium-234
and protoactinium-234, you are fairly certain that no DU has become airborne
and it is unlikely to be harmful to human health.
Hari Sharma.
PS
there are rumours the walls of the Pentagon
are made radiation-proof with reinforced concrete mixed with depleted uranium
particles to keep the radiation out in case of a nuclear attack/accident.
So the Pentagon-personnel can keep functioning during the USA citizens
die from radiation sickness.
Hans de Jonge |
