Commercial jets contain as much as 3,300 lbs. of depleted uranium

[RebelYell]

Depleted Uranium Released During Canadian Plane Crash

Little-Known Use of DU in Commercial Jets Exposed

By Christopher Bollyn

The recent crash of a Boeing 747 in Halifax, Canada, raises a number of questions about the use of depleted uranium (DU) in airplanes, public health concerns and the 9-11 attacks. When a Boeing 747 crashed and burned on takeoff at Halifax International Airport in Nova Scotia, Canada, on Oct. 14, an official accident investigator said the aircraft probably contained radioactive depleted uranium.

Bill Fowler, an investigator with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, said the plane was likely equipped with DU as counterweights in its wings and rudder.

“A 747 may contain as much as 1,500 kilograms <3,300 lbs.> of the material,” the Canadian Press reported. It took 60 firefighters and 20 trucks about three hours to control the fire. Fowler said: “there is no threat or concern” about DU exposure to those working on the wreckage.

“That’s baloney,” Marion Fulk, a retired staff scientist from Lawrence Livermore National Lab, told American Free Press. Fulk, 83, is currently researching how low-level ionizing radiation causes cancer, birth defects and a host of other health problems. Burning depleted uranium creates a “whole mess of oxides,” Fulk said, “which is what makes it so wicked biologically.”

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http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/depleted_uranium.html

[Cronus Protagonist]

1. Don't worry Bush will rush there and inhale the smoke for us

...to prove it's not poisonous.



"So I don't worry about, and people shouldn't
worry about a draft. . . I think we're in good
shape, I really do. And, if not, we'll -- I'll address
the nation. But I don't see any need to right now."
- G. W. Bush (Source: The Whitehouse)

http://brainbuttons.com/home.asp?stashid=13

[tlcandie]

2. Well, well .. nice!!

Dunno about you, but this at the end really caused my light to blink...

<snip>
AMEC Construction Management, a subsidiary of the British engineering firm AMEC, renovated Wedge One of the Pentagon before 9-11 and cleaned it up afterward.

AMEC had also renovated Silverstein’s WTC 7, which collapsed mysteriously on 9-11, and then headed the cleanup of the WTC site afterward. The AMEC construction firm is currently in the process of closing all its offices in the United States.
<snip>

Interesting that they remodeled both buildings and now they are in a rush to move, eh? :think:

[Sporadicus]

3. The Article Fails to Explain Why DU is Used in Airliners

It seems counterintuitive to load 3,300# of a material into an airliner for no good reason. Not disputing the story, but it seems strange that an airliner would be laden with one of the heaviest substances on earth.

[RebelYell]

4. That's my question - WTF is the reason for DU? n/t

[Rjnerd]

5. Counterbalances

The elevators, etc are essentially see-saws - they have a heavy weight on the other side of the pivot, so you don't have to work as hard to move them. They want the weight to be as compact as possible.

Having said that, they should just use tungsten. The density is within a few percent, and its not toxic.

-dp-

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7. Tungsten is Expensive, But Lead is Cheap

lead is toxic, but nowhere near as bad as DU!

[humanbeing]

6. Uh, no, it says very clearly...

"Bill Fowler, an investigator with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, said the plane was likely equipped with DU as counterweights in its wings and rudder."

I dont know enough to state that DU is much better than some other heavy-but-less-toxic material like lead, though.

[Sporadicus]

8. I'm Slow Some Days

Mondays, Tuesdays, etc. :silly: