Idaho to receive nuke waste from Kuwait

[TheStripey1]

Know anyone who lives in Idaho? You might want to let them know this is happening as this waste will not break down for millions of years...

Southwest Idaho company making millions by accepting toxic waste
By Cynthia Sewell, The Idaho Statesman
May 8th 2008


Railcars loaded with 6,700 tons of radioactive waste will roll across the Treasure Valley this week, the cargo destined for a remote site south of Boise on a sagebrush-dotted plateau near the Snake River.

And it won't be the first time.

This scenario has occurred regularly over the past several years. The site Idaho's only public hazardous waste dump has received more than 1 million tons of radioactive materials from the federal government during the past five years.

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The shipment now en route to Idaho is from Kuwait.

In 1991, a fire at the U.S. Army Camp Doha ignited military vehicles and munitions containing depleted uranium used in armor-piercing shells. The shell fragments were removed and disposed in the United States by the U.S. Army in 2005. This incoming shipment contains the remaining 6,700 tons of lightly contaminated soil the fragments were removed from.

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With all the deserts they have over there, why is this stuff being transported here?

[glockmail]

1. Because its our shit to begin with.
2. Otherwise some rag-head would dig it up and use it for terrorist activity.

[TheStripey1]

but glock... alla y'all have previously argued it, Depleted Uranium Munitions, is benign... have you forgotten that? or are you, like your presumptive presidential candidate, just having a senior moment?

[glockmail]

but glock... alla y'all have previously argued it, Depleted Uranium Munitions, is benign... have you forgotten that? or are you, like your presumptive presidential candidate, just having a senior moment?

1. Who the fuck is alla?
2. When have I ever claimed that?

[Gaffer]

stripy you must be think of another board. I don't think we have ever discussed depleted uranium here.

[glockmail]

..... like your presumptive presidential candidate, just having a senior moment....

I voted for the black guy. He's not that old.

[TheStripey1]

stripy you must be think of another board. I don't think we have ever discussed depleted uranium here.

could be, Gaffey... might be time to fire it up, so to speak, since it, DU, is being deposited on our own soil...

[TheStripey1]

I voted for the black guy. He's not that old.

you did?




good job... unless of course, you did it because rush limpballs asked you to with his project choas......

[TheStripey1]

stripy you must be think of another board. I don't think we have ever discussed depleted uranium here.

nope, gaff... we HAVE discussed it... you do know there is a search function here, right?

Here's one... started not at all surprizingly, by me...

[Gaffer]

Interesting article. I didn't know anything about it until you posted it. If it was our mess it's our responsibility to dispose of it. And I wasn't aware there was a dump in Idaho. I thought the only nuke waste dump was Yucca Flats.

I've hear and read that depleted uranium is used in armor piercing rounds because it packs a much more powerful punch. And that the radiation from these rounds is minimal. Though it was suspected to have been the cause of Gulf Syndrome. Haven't heard much more about it so I can't really argue for or against it. But having to clean up the area, including the sand and store it in a nuke disposal area doesn't speak well for it.

[TheStripey1]

Interesting article. I didn't know anything about it until you posted it. If it was our mess it's our responsibility to dispose of it. And I wasn't aware there was a dump in Idaho. I thought the only nuke waste dump was Yucca Flats.

I've hear and read that depleted uranium is used in armor piercing rounds because it packs a much more powerful punch. And that the radiation from these rounds is minimal. Though it was suspected to have been the cause of Gulf Syndrome. Haven't heard much more about it so I can't really argue for or against it. But having to clean up the area, including the sand and store it in a nuke disposal area doesn't speak well for it.

Yes, it is used for that purpose and no, the effects are not minimal and yes, many have suspected that it is the cause of GWS... and no... Like I said, it's not benign and Idaho is not the only state contaminated with it.

I have extensive sources as this was the topic with which I began my forumphing career 5 years ago because 2 of my online pals died from it. Plus I'm now a member of 3 DU yahoo groups... perhaps you'd like to join one or two and read up...

PM me.

[TheStripey1]

OBTW... DU is to the vets of Afghanistan, Bosnia and Iraq as Agent Orange is to those of us that served in Viet Nam... a silent killer that disables you years later...

Personally, I hate it... and hope to God that some day it is outlawed...

[TheStripey1]

1. Who the fuck is alla?
2. When have I ever claimed that?

alla y'all means according to my pal, Mr. P, All Of You All... i.e., the plural of y'all...

[Mr. P]

alla y'all means according to my pal, Mr. P, All Of You All... i.e., the plural of y'all...

yep.

[Said1]

As far as I know, we don't take ours back - as a rule. As far as I'm concerned, Canada created the 'arms' race between India and Pakistan. Shameful disgrace.

I can almost here the cold call 'hello India, we here you need a nuclear reactor, eh....well today is your lucky day!'

'Hello Pakistan? i don't want to start shit, but we just 'gave' India a nuclear reactor. You might want us to hook you up with one too......no, we don't want the waste back....keep it sell it, same dif'