UT board: Depleted uranium disposal needs scrutiny

Utah's Radiation Control Board is moving forward with efforts to require a company that wants to dispose of depleted uranium in the state to first submit a report confirming that additional safeguards will work.

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SCarolina depleted uranium shipments set for Dec.

An official with a U.S. Department of Energy site in South Carolina says shipments of nearly 15,000 drums of depleted uranium slated for disposal in Utah are set to start in December — two months later than originally estimated.

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Utah OKs continued disposal of depleted uranium

Utah's Radiation Control Board Tuesday refused to block the disposal of depleted uranium in the state, clearing the way for shipments next month of the low-level radioactive waste.

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Moratorium sought in Utah on depleted uranium

State regulators will consider whether federal rules for disposing of depleted uranium are adequate to protect health and safety in Utah or if the waste should be banned until more stringent procedures are put in place.

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BAGHDAD: The guns are gradually falling silent in Iraq as a fragile stability takes hold, turning the spotlight on a stealthier killer likely to stalk Iraqis for years to come.

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The horrors of the US Agent Orange defoliation campaign in Vietnam, about which I wrote on Oct.

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The Nuclear Regulator Commission is considering an application by the US Army for a permit to have depleted uranium at its Pohakuloa Training Area, a vast stretch of flat land in what's called the "saddle" between the sacred mountains of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea on Hawaii' …

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"One site registered an increased level of radioactivity but it appeared to be a result of depleted uranium in some warheads and not from any nuclear or radiological weapon of mass descruction," Rumsfeld said. [Reuters 16 January 2002]

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Syria has revealed that it has built a missile facility over the ruins of what the U.S. says was a nuclear reactor destroyed by Israel warplanes, diplomats said Tuesday.

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Is there an absolute or perhaps desperate self-defense need for the U.S. to include Depleted Uranium in its weaponry?

There has been lengthy on-going debate about the direct and collateral damage to the Middle East - the human beings who live there as well as the environment - caused by weapons whose lethal-ness includes depleted uranium.

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The implications of the congressionally mandated advisory panel's report, chaired by James Binns, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense and a Vietnam vet, may not be easy to contain.

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Well, well, well. As Donald Rumsfeld once said, "…there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know" and coming from one as clearly clueless as he, today's post is dedicated to his spirit of bewildering cluelessness.

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A Discussion with Dr. William (Dr. Bill) Deagle, MD on The New Technology-Driven Diseases - depleted uranium, electromagnetic force fields, bioweapons, Morgellon's Disease, and deadly vaccines. Transcript from the 7-22-08, Gary Null Show.

Gary Null: "Hi everyone, I'm Gary Null, and I'd like to welcome you to this program. Today we're going to be exploring some very important issues.

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DU dust linked to 500,000 deaths.

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Million Dollar Bullets

Senator McCain told Larry King, "It's not a matter of how long we're in Iraq, it's if we succeed or not. And both Sen. Obama and Clinton want to set a date for withdrawal [...] I won't let that happen."

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Babies born in Fallujah are showing illnesses and deformities on a scale never seen before, doctors and residents say. The new cases, and the number of deaths among children, have risen after "special weaponry" was used in the two massive bombing campaigns in Fallujah in 2004.

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FALLUJAH, Jun 12 (IPS) - Babies born in Fallujah are showing illnesses and deformities on a scale never seen before, doctors and residents say.

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The use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions by the U.S. military may lead to a death toll far higher than that from the nuclear bombs dropped at the end of World War II.

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Can anybody tell me what this could possibly be used for?

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The seizure of up to 66 pounds of low-grade uranium linked to the FARC rebels adds weight to the evidence found in a captured rebel laptop that the guerrillas were interested in buying and selling the material, according to the Colombian Defense Ministry.

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Colombia said it seized at least 66 pounds (30 kg) of uranium from the country's biggest left-wing rebel group on Wednesday, the first time radioactive material has been linked to the four-decade-old guerrilla war.

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30 kilograms of Uranium captured by the Columbian Army from FARC. Two news videos: 60 seconds and 56 seconds, both in Spanish.

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Iraq. Are they better off now, than they were 5 years ago?

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The nation's foremost authority on post-traumatic stress disorder testified in federal court Monday that up to 30 percent of combat veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan are likely to be diagnosed with the ailment and that the Veteran's Health Administration is not doing enough to hel …

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An analysis of the 2009 New Mexico Legislature by one of the most progressive members of the State Senate, of interest to educators, health professionals, students of Government, and just about every American who wants to understand and influence legislative efforts in every stat …

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"For the oppressors, what is worthwhile is to have more-always more-even at the cost of the oppressed having less or having nothing. For them, to be is to have and to be the class of the 'haves.'" Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

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Hunters Point Naval Shipyard is contaminated and is a Superfund Site. What really makes the issue very serious are the radiological elements. What makes Hunters Point Naval Shipyard a terrible place to be - are the worst types of experiments that were conducted.

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I refuse to be a part of a military and Administration that continue to abuse and torture, doesn't recognize the rights of detainees and allows them to be shipped to secret detention facilities for "National Security" purposes; a military that is illegally, based on all U.S.

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