Comments on: How not to “respond” to depleted uranium incidents… http://depletedcranium.com/how-not-to-respond-to-depleted-uranium-incidents/ Bad Science And Scary Science Tue, 22 May 2012 18:09:24 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: minister John whittenberg http://depletedcranium.com/how-not-to-respond-to-depleted-uranium-incidents/comment-page-1/#comment-11384 minister John whittenberg Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:01:00 +0000 http://depletedcranium.com/?p=381#comment-11384 hey, brian this is your friend out in california, how do i get ahold of you anyway. hey, brian this is your friend out in california, how do i get ahold of you anyway.

]]> By: minister John whittenberg http://depletedcranium.com/how-not-to-respond-to-depleted-uranium-incidents/comment-page-1/#comment-11383 minister John whittenberg Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:59:33 +0000 http://depletedcranium.com/?p=381#comment-11383 Hey brian this is your friend out in california,how do i get a hold of you anyway,805-617-8171 Hey brian this is your friend out in california,how do i get a hold of you anyway,805-617-8171

]]> By: Scottar http://depletedcranium.com/how-not-to-respond-to-depleted-uranium-incidents/comment-page-1/#comment-9355 Scottar Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:53:45 +0000 http://depletedcranium.com/?p=381#comment-9355 I have this old Radium Dial Timex Watch. It stopped ticking years ago but it's still radiating. I asked Timex if they wanted to do a commercial around it and they denied all plausibility claiming it to be a Shanghai fake. They told me to bury it in a can as some scientists by the name of Curie died from the stuff. I asked them about alerting authorities and they said if I did I'd get hauled off to Guantanamo. We know nothing! I have this old Radium Dial Timex Watch. It stopped ticking years ago but it’s still radiating.

I asked Timex if they wanted to do a commercial around it and they denied all plausibility claiming it to be a Shanghai fake. They told me to bury it in a can as some scientists by the name of Curie died from the stuff.

I asked them about alerting authorities and they said if I did I’d get hauled off to Guantanamo.

We know nothing!

]]> By: drbuzz0 http://depletedcranium.com/how-not-to-respond-to-depleted-uranium-incidents/comment-page-1/#comment-7890 drbuzz0 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:03:06 +0000 http://depletedcranium.com/?p=381#comment-7890 [quote comment="7889"]Hi there! I'd like to buy some depleted uranium metal from you. The best pieces for my experiments would be plates or strips, but any sized pieces in pound quantities would be fine. Please do let me know! amalgumfusion@hotmail.com Sincerely, Brian Charles[/quote] Okay, I only have several grams on hand, but I'll see what I can do. It tends to be kinda pricey to buy it outright as a calibration standard, but I'll check to see what is around because it is often avaliable government surplus. That's by far the lowest cost way of acquiring it, but it tends to be in odd shapes and sizes.

        Brian Charles said:

Hi there!

I’d like to buy some depleted uranium metal from you. The best pieces for my experiments would be plates or strips, but any sized pieces in pound quantities would be fine.

Please do let me know!

amalgumfusion@hotmail.com

Sincerely,

Brian Charles

Okay, I only have several grams on hand, but I’ll see what I can do. It tends to be kinda pricey to buy it outright as a calibration standard, but I’ll check to see what is around because it is often avaliable government surplus. That’s by far the lowest cost way of acquiring it, but it tends to be in odd shapes and sizes.

]]> By: Brian Charles http://depletedcranium.com/how-not-to-respond-to-depleted-uranium-incidents/comment-page-1/#comment-7889 Brian Charles Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:10:59 +0000 http://depletedcranium.com/?p=381#comment-7889 Hi there! I'd like to buy some depleted uranium metal from you. The best pieces for my experiments would be plates or strips, but any sized pieces in pound quantities would be fine. Please do let me know! amalgumfusion@hotmail.com Sincerely, Brian Charles Hi there!

I’d like to buy some depleted uranium metal from you. The best pieces for my experiments would be plates or strips, but any sized pieces in pound quantities would be fine.

Please do let me know!

amalgumfusion@hotmail.com

Sincerely,

Brian Charles

]]> By: Brian Charles http://depletedcranium.com/how-not-to-respond-to-depleted-uranium-incidents/comment-page-1/#comment-7888 Brian Charles Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:09:21 +0000 http://depletedcranium.com/?p=381#comment-7888 Hi there! I'd like to buy some uranium metal from you somehow. Perhaps the best shape for my experiments would be thin uranium metal plates or even strips, if possible. But any decent sized pieces would be fine, hopefully in pound quantities. Please do let me know and hear back from you! amalgumfusion@hotmail.com Sincerely, Brian Charles Hi there!

I’d like to buy some uranium metal from you somehow. Perhaps the best shape for my experiments would be thin uranium metal plates or even strips, if possible. But any decent sized pieces would be fine, hopefully in pound quantities. Please do let me know and hear back from you!

amalgumfusion@hotmail.com

Sincerely,

Brian Charles

]]> By: Marcus http://depletedcranium.com/how-not-to-respond-to-depleted-uranium-incidents/comment-page-1/#comment-2681 Marcus Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:39:18 +0000 http://depletedcranium.com/?p=381#comment-2681 Seems there are some scientists that do acknowledge a DU risk: http://jnumedmtg.snmjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/47/suppl_1/242P-b Seems there are some scientists that do acknowledge a DU risk: http://jnumedmtg.snmjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/47/suppl_1/242P-b

]]> By: drbuzz0 http://depletedcranium.com/how-not-to-respond-to-depleted-uranium-incidents/comment-page-1/#comment-2189 drbuzz0 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:15:35 +0000 http://depletedcranium.com/?p=381#comment-2189 No it's really not a problem at all. So are you saying you want to buy some? I have some. I can hook you up if you want but as far as uranium metal, it's kinda expensive in anything larger than about the size of a couple match sticks. Uranium oxide is easier, but the only good supplier of large samples of DU metal I know is very expensive because they're sold as an analysis and spectroscopy standard, so they're extremely precisely made - more so than would be needed for most applications. I can check though. You can sometimes find it being sold surplus if you look around. How much do ya want? No it’s really not a problem at all. So are you saying you want to buy some? I have some. I can hook you up if you want but as far as uranium metal, it’s kinda expensive in anything larger than about the size of a couple match sticks. Uranium oxide is easier, but the only good supplier of large samples of DU metal I know is very expensive because they’re sold as an analysis and spectroscopy standard, so they’re extremely precisely made – more so than would be needed for most applications.

I can check though. You can sometimes find it being sold surplus if you look around. How much do ya want?

]]> By: drw http://depletedcranium.com/how-not-to-respond-to-depleted-uranium-incidents/comment-page-1/#comment-2174 drw Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:51:37 +0000 http://depletedcranium.com/?p=381#comment-2174 Perhaps they should send the homeland security folks response team for depleted uranium to Iraq! Specifically Baghdad were there are numerous 1000s of spent A10 shells in government ministry buildings. Ironically, they just sit there with a background count of 1000+/sec and it's not a problem there. Officially, DU is not a problem, nor it's aerosol from combustion, but ma and pa can't get a decent chunk on surplus? That's oxymoronic. Perhaps they should send the homeland security folks response team for depleted uranium to Iraq! Specifically Baghdad were there are numerous 1000s of spent A10 shells in government ministry buildings. Ironically, they just sit there with a background count of 1000+/sec and it’s not a problem there.
Officially, DU is not a problem, nor it’s aerosol from combustion, but ma and pa can’t get a decent chunk on surplus? That’s oxymoronic.

]]> By: Jim Baerg http://depletedcranium.com/how-not-to-respond-to-depleted-uranium-incidents/comment-page-1/#comment-2130 Jim Baerg Wed, 06 Feb 2008 04:30:24 +0000 http://depletedcranium.com/?p=381#comment-2130 I have held a (not yet used) fuel pellet for a CANDU reactor in my hand. Of course that was natural uranium oxide, slightly more radioactive than depleted uranium. This reminds me of the tale (I don't know if it's true) of a truck spilling its load in an accident & the police etc. getting very concerned over the load being listed as a 'chemical', & closing off the highway. Apparently the chemical was 'ferric oxide'. See also the Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide petition. I have held a (not yet used) fuel pellet for a CANDU reactor in my hand. Of course that was natural uranium oxide, slightly more radioactive than depleted uranium.

This reminds me of the tale (I don’t know if it’s true) of a truck spilling its load in an accident & the police etc. getting very concerned over the load being listed as a ‘chemical’, & closing off the highway. Apparently the chemical was ‘ferric oxide’.

See also the Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide petition.

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