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Article #350Re: Uranium Ore is not Radio active so is harmless ore
From: jg
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:31
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:31
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Brad wrote: > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > When you learned this, where did they tell you the radioactivity creeps into the cycle from? Yellowcake emits low amounts of radiation, probably not enough to cause health damage except from intimate exposure over an extended time. It has a chemical toxicity similar to lead or mercury. The world over, care is taken in its handling and transport and people in various locations have objected to its free transit.
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