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Re: Uranium Ore is not Radio active so is harmless ore

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From: tony
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:29
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On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 16:15:24 +0800, "Sandgroper"
<woodbudgie@KNICKERSgmail.com> wrote:

>
>"Brad" <brad@someplace.com> wrote in message 
>news:HOKuk.32868$IK1.9097@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>> Mr Carpenter has an ad campaign claiming that Radio active Uranium Ore 
>> will be going past schools to the freo port.
>> What a load of rot. Any ore out of the Kimberly which is where the Uranium 
>> is goes to a Kimberley Port where there
>> are rail lines. Uranium Ore is not radio active. If it was there would be 
>> thousands of dead workers which handle the
>> ore by hand every day of the week.
>
>Bullshit , uranium ore does have low levels of radiation in it's natural 
>state (U235 & U238 ) and it is refined into yellow cake that has a higher 
>concentration of radioactive elements.
>Also Yellow Cake if fairly toxic to people , it is a heavy metal , just like 
>mercury and lead.
>
>Why don't you get your facts straight , I bet you don't even live in WA , 
>and have no idea where are the iron ore ports are located , not to mention 
>the fact that the rail lines from the iron ore depostis to the ports are 
>PRIVATELY OWNED , so you will have quite a problem trying to get access to 
>those rail lines as was the case recently .
>
>>
>> Nuclear Waste is a by product from nuclear reactors.
>> I cannot believe the media in WA not looking at these false ads at all.
>> People are believing it in the masses.
>
>Then the media should also be looking at the false and deceptive adverts 
>that Barnett  is using.
>
>>
>> WA has to be the worst educated state in Australia. People are believing 
>> that
>> uranium ore is radio active because the premier is saying that.
>
>Physics is not one of your strong points is it ? , perhaps you missed those 
>classes and opted to go and get pissed out of your tiny brain at all those 
>Young Liberal parties , I have heard all about them from other sources than 
>the media.

Physics ?? I would have thought that this would come under
Chemistry....
>
>> Come on Perth media do your job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>
>> The Libs ought to do an ad from South Aust showing miners handling the 
>> uranium ore.
>
>Typical Liberal idealist and how to treat the workers  , getting the mine 
>workers to expose themselves to dangerous workplace practices all in the 
>name of money for big businesses , I wouldn't be surprised if you expected 
>the mine workers to work without any personal protection equipment ( PPE)
>
>> Or ever gone campaign up north. You've probably walked over uranium ore.
>
>> WA has 40% of the world's uranium deposit. Get it out of the ground and 
>> sell to China
>> and fix their carbon problems or leave it in the ground and sell coal to 
>> China which
>> is what is causing pollution problems the world over.
>>
>> If WA was to sell uranium they would get the world carbon levels down. 
>> Surely its worth doing.
>
>Yeah , and pollute other parts of the world with radioactive nuclear waste , 
>particulary China , they don't give a stuff about pollution , all they want 
>is to exploit the workers and  generate a massive profit.
>
>> And the money it would bring to the state would be $15 billion per year 
>> which could pay for
>> all the problems that WA now has. Would get unemplyment down even further.
>
>Correction , it would NOT bring massive amounts of money to the state Gov , 
>all the uranium mining  profits would go to Barnett's mates in the big 
>business sector.
>All the crap about uranium  you are dribbling about is not for the benefit 
>of the WA community , it is  all for the Liberals and Barnetts mates in the 
>multinational companies , particularly the mates of Malcolm Turnbull who 
>have already formed a company to build nuclear reactors in Aust.
>
>It was the same as the Ken Court's proposed iron ore port at Oakagee , it 
>went belly up because everybody knew it was for the benefit of Ken and 
>Richard Court and all their business mates at the big end of town , after 
>the Libs got turfed out of Gov , the Labor Gov put it on the backburner 
>until recently so as to stop all those Liberal arseholes from getting even 
>richer.

They were just slow in working out how they could gouge off the
proposal......to line their own pockets....
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Subject: Re: Uranium Ore is not Radio active so is harmless ore
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