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tony@altavista.com wrote:
> 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....
.......

There's one confirmation for the ignorant tag.
Go to the library and see if you can find the nuclear chemistry section.