PHOTOS: Russia's Radioactive River

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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/12/photogalleries/101221-radioactive-river-russia-pictures/


Toxic Waste Warning


This gallery is part of a special news series and National Geographic Society initiative on freshwater.

A sign near an abandoned school warns against gathering mushrooms, picking berries, and fishing in the Russian village of Muslyumovo. The community sits on the banks of the Techa River in one of the world’s most contaminated nuclear dumping grounds.

This Ural Mountain village is one of two dozen that originally sat downstream of the Mayak nuclear complex, which dumped 2.68 billion cubic feet (76 million cubic meters) of highly radioactive waste into the river from 1949 to 1956.

The Mayak facility remains operational and though waste disposal has been modernized, most downstream towns—except Muslyumovo, 18 miles (30 kilometers) away—have long since been evacuated.

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http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m73282&hd=&size=1&l=e


Iraq War DU dust birth defects compared to atomic bomb at Hiroshima


It is apparent that the "War on Terrorism" is not about surgically stopping "terrorist cells" from spreading destruction. If that were the case, there would not be over 1 million Iraqi civilian casualties, and other huge death tolls among civilians in the Middle East.

The 9/11 truth movement has sought to critically discuss and explore the legitimacy of the "War on Terrorism". Its findings suggest that the destruction of the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001 was a 'contrived event’, similar to the Reichstag Fire which Adolf Hilter used to help trigger World War II.

Death tolls among Middle East population groups and soldiers from the U.S. and NATO countries have been substantively caused by the use of Depleted Uranium (DU). The only reason to use DU would be to cause mass civilian casualties far beyond the 'point of detonation’ supposedly intended for "terrorists".

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"When a DU round or bomb strikes a hard target, most of its kinetic energy is converted to heat " sufficient heat to ignite the DU. From 40% to 70% of the DU is converted to extremely fine dust particles of ceramic uranium oxide (primarily dioxide, though other formulations also occur). Over 60% of these particles are smaller than 5 microns in diameter, about the same size as the cigarette ash particles in cigarette smoke and therefore respirable."

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"Doctors in southern Iraq are making comparisons to the birth defects that followed the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in WWII. They have numerous photos of infants born without brains, with their internal organs outside their bodies, without sexual organs, without spines, and the list of deformities goes on an on. Such birth defects were extremely rare in Iraq prior to the large scale use of DU. Weapons. Now they are commonplace. In hospitals across Iraq, the mothers are no longer asking, "Doctor, is it a boy or girl?" but rather, "Doctor, is it normal?" The photos are horrendous, they can be viewed on the following website"

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we did this - we are to blame

[maryf]

1. OH, but it's such a clean energy source...

:sarcasm: K&R, no nukes of any kind, thanks for posting.

[wtmusic]

2. Like your bundling - legit concern next to ignorant rant

but the MIHOP bit is a giveaway.

[meow mix]

3. to cheap to meter

but we should reach across the ailse and compromise

[qb]

4. K&R

:hi:

[gratuitous]

5. Radioactive waste and weaponry are GOOD for you

Get with the program! Anyone who says otherwise is just fear mongering, that's all. And we have plenty of things to fear without smearing our good friends in the nuclear industries. Footwear on airplanes, for one.

[Heywood J]

6. As an FYI - Mayak is a Soviet nuclear weapons facility.

What a quick and dirty Cold War-era Soviet nuclear weapons facility looks like and what a modern North American nuclear power plant looks like are two entirely different things.

"e did this - we are to blame" is far from the truth. I have no control over what some crazy Soviet commissar ordered at the expense of human life, thirty years before I was born.

[mdmc]

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